WE WON’T BREAK - BENEFITTING THE MAUI MERRIMAN’S MONKEYPOD FOUNDATION

Featuring: Martin Nethercutt, Benna McCartney, Ruth McCartney and Dr. Angie McCartney

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The people of Maui need your help and so does the Banyan Tree.

Thank you.

The song ‘We Won’t Break’ started in September of 2022.

I didn’t have a real direction for this, but the song was growing on me.

The guitar riff gave it a kind of ‘Pink Floyd’ vibe and I repeated it for the main melody structure of the song. 

As it came time for lyrics and vocals, I was inspired by the music starting to turn out like a ‘torch song.’

Ruth suggested at the time that it could be cool sounding if we had her niece, Benna McCartney on the track singing the second verse and Ruth singing the third verse. I agreed and sent Benna the music over to the U.K.

It took a couple of weeks to get the vocal track back. and I used that time to finish out my lead vocal.

Then it came time to finish the chorus. The song really started to build. I even persuaded Mum-in-Law Dr. Angie McCartney to join in on the chorus and she accepted!

Now, for the first time in musical history, we have 3 generations of McCartney women on this song and I’m super excited about that.

Then, the Maui and Lahaina fires disaster happened. Our song was about to be released. We just had to stop and change it around.

It suddenly made sense to build the song’s video around the 150 year old Banyan tree in Lahaina, that was burned badly, but is still standing.

So, the result is that we decided to donate 100% of the song’s publishing royalties to the victims of this tragic disaster, and at the suggestion of Supermensch himself, Shep Gordon, we will be directing the funds from streams and downloads to the Merriman’s Monkeypod Foundation.

Please donate by downloading this song from your favorite music platform. The people of Maui need your help and so does the Banyan Tree.

Thank you.