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Lesley Rae Dowling - New Possession

💍 As is so often the case, Lesley Rae Dowling’s lyrics are cryptic, her delivery - always full of emotion.  For us this new release rates up near the top of the many great songs that she has come up with, but it has surprisingly,  never been promoted as a single.  Her writing had matured by the time she wrote this one. The lyrics show careful attention to how they are placed in the rhythmic flow. The melodies and other musical elements display the same level of experienced compositional skill. This song was brought to Tully McCully by Lesley after the experience of her writing the songs for the  When the night comes album, which itself showed a new level of songwriting from her. (c) Songwrights Publishers Not everything they prepared was actually released. Tully and Lesley Rae Dowling (LRD) worked on numerous musical ideas together, some of these were unfinished, and have subsequently joined the remix release series. This song was one that never made it onto one of the McCully produc