Sometimes it's best to look calmly inward during troubled times to draw on faith, and find reasons to hope. "A Bright Tomorrow" from The C.R. Ecker Band is all about extending goodness to those in need and believing that YOU can help to make a better world. It's a song that listeners will not soon forget, sung by lead vocalist Michael Stanton.

Charles Ecker first composed this song in the late 1980s, but no publisher was interested because he wanted to give to the world. And that meant', logically, that those in the "bid'ness" had no motive to hop on the Ecker bandwagon, long before a band was even formed.

But "A Bright Tomorrow" was never completely out of his mind, even though the demo cassette sat in a shoebox gathering dust for nearly 30 years.

Now, through cdBaby and its method of allowing a free download waving distribution expenses, short of putting the song out through Public Domain (and losing all control of its...