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Gear Jammer Productions
Nov. 12, 2019
SAPULPA, Okla., Nov. 12, 2019 /Christian
Newswire/ -- The song "Anaheim Girl" started out, of all things, as an
anniversary present. "I started getting a series of messages from this truck
driver named Todd Sturgis," recalled 'Long Haul Paul' Marhoefer, a trucker
singer/songwriter based in Indiana. "He was attempting to commission me to write
a song to honor his wife and co-driver, Tamera. Frankly, I kept trying to
politely blow the guy off."
"Four or five months later, Todd got ahold of me again. I guess he had paid some
award-winning musician a few hundred bucks to write this song for his wife and
asked me to critique it. Not trying to be mean, but I thought it was a pretty
lame song. At that point, I'm like, 'Dude, you can't go in there with that
song.' I suppose I was a little bit like the trucker who doesn't give a guy any
directions on the CB until someone else gives him wrong directions, and then and
only then I chime in and say 'No that's wrong; here's the best way.'"
After a couple of phone interviews with Mr. Sturgis, Marhoefer wrote and
recorded "Anaheim Girl," a song which details a trucking family's odyssey from
addiction to recovery.
Sturgis then created a music video to go with the song and surprised his wife
Tamera with it for their 25th trucking anniversary. The couple began to send the
video out to a small circle of friends and family. "The majority of all the
return emails started with the phrase, 'This made me cry,' recalled Mrs.
Sturgis. "It was a very personal song. I never dreamed other people would be so
moved by our story."
After receiving a link to the video, Marhoefer began to realize that this was
shaping up to be a special project. "Several friends, and even the president of
the record label I'm signed to, said things like 'This is one of your best
tracks Paul.'"
Marhoefer then asked the Sturgis' if he could release the song on his upcoming
CD, "You Were A Good Hand." "We were so excited to find out that our experience
with God's grace was going to be out there for other people to hear," said
Tamera. "What started out as a labor of love has become a statement of faith,
redemption, and grace."
"Anaheim Girl," track 11 on the upcoming CD "You Were A Good Hand" is scheduled
for release on Thanksgiving Eve, 11/27/2019.
Anaheim Girl The Video:
https://youtu.be/hwX9tq37iVE
SOURCE Gear Jammer Productions
CONTACT: Long Haul Paul, 765-730-7643,
longhaulpaul1959@gmail.com
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