GRAY LOVE, Track # 13 from Prairie Prince Colours and Passions.
Gray Love (official video) by Michael Cotten
Release Date: Friday, May 29, 2026
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GRAY LOVE credits
Prairie Prince – Kitchen Utensils, Traps, Vocal, Bowls
Chris von Sneidern – Samples, Guitar, Bass
Michael Holman – Vocal, Background Vocals
Nick Taylor – Background Vocals
John Ferenzik – Guitar Solo
Neil Hamburger – Joke (Gray)
Gray Love lyrics
Gray
I’m in a gray mood
Gray. Gray matter
Gray doesn’t care if it’s stuck in the middle
It doesn’t matter if it’s caught between black ’n’ white
It holds on to neutral ground and doesn’t put up a fight
Between hot and cold, it’s like, lukewarm water, gray water, from an industrial landscape
Digging, digging, dig, dig?
What’s the matter gray, are you in the way today?
Timeless, sophisticated, emotionless, gray… the way of gray
Way ahead of white, not far behind black, practically in the middle, depending on the shade of gray
Gray power, gray elegance, Payne’s gray industrial decor, compromise, intellect and cool
Colour of business
Gray mood caught in a gray area
The colour of truth
The soul of all colour
Gray lives matter
Gray Gray. What do you say?
I’m gray, I’m that colour, that vibe, that intonation
I’m that feeling, that urge, that connotation
You feel me? Of course you do, sometimes
At some time or another my sister, my brother
you’re going to feel me feeling gray
I’m everything and nothing
I’m all of it
I’m absence and presence
I just don’t quit
I’m gray
I might inspire or maybe destroy, your call my girl, my boy
I build and then muttle
I ostracize then cuddle
I’m gray
Gray
In the end we’re all gray, just trying to find our way
I’m gray, are you?
I’m hard, cold, brittle, old
I’m rusted, broken, cranky, funky busted
I’m a machine, a spare part lost in translation
I’m an entire factory full of machines ground to a halt amid imagination
Gray, gray, what do you say?
It doesn’t matter I’m gray
Prairie Prince COLOURS and PASSIONS – Available on vinyl, CD and Digital
Watch Prairie Prince unbox Colours and Passions. The ambitious project—ten years in the making and featuring 50 musicians, 20 drums, across 14 tracks—pays homage to spoken word legend Ken Nordine’s landmark 1966 album “Colors.”
Double album on white & black vinyl with a 16-page booklet featuring original artwork by Prairie Prince.
AVAILABLE on Vinyl, CD, and digital.
Release Date: March 20, 2026
Featuring guest appearances by Michael Cotten, Roger Steen and Rick Anderson of The Tubes, Todd Rundgren, Chris von Sneidern, Hugh Cornwell, Ross Valory, Buckethead, Ralph Carney, Cyril Jordan, Jello Biafra, Neil Hamburger & many more celebrated musicians.
ORANGE JOY, the third single from the long-awaited album PRAIRIE PRINCE COLOURS and PASSIONS, is available on digital audio platforms and video.
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Video produced by Michael Cotten.
This song is dedicated to the memory of Jesse Gress – long-time partner in music, wonderful guitar player, and ardent lover of Bossa Nova music.
ORANGE JOY credits
Prairie Prince – Vocal, Traps, Quira, Timbales, Bass Drum
Chris von Sneidern – Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Michael Cotten – Keys, Samples, Synth
David James – Bass Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals
Ross Valory – Bass Guitar, Vocals
Eric Levy – Keys, Synth
Diana Mangano – Vocals
Charlie Prince – Laughs
Neil Hamburger – Joke (Orange)
The True Story of Orange Joy
Since the beginning of my awareness of colour, I’ve always preferred the colour Orange over Yellow. Not that I don’t have respect for Yellow as a colour (see and hear ‘Yellow Excitement’ track 4 on my up-and-coming album, Prairie Prince’s Colours and Passions). In an early colouring book assignment, my teacher requested a box that held Jack to be coloured Yellow; I filled the square Orange and was reprimanded for not following directions. I’ve had a mental block about the incident ever since. Orange gave me a sense of Joy and warmth that has also never left me in my love for Latin music that evokes the sun’s hues and heat of its rhythms. With this track my intention was to imagine being in a place so serene and lovely, relaxing on a shore in a hammock somewhere under a canopy of fronds, making love to a slow steady Bossa groove. Suddenly accelerating in tempo and building in intensity, with inclusion of a new joyful location such as a theme park, turning the mellow rhythmic passion into rubato time, encouraging mucho hip movement in a burst of joy. The third section of the suite segues into a cranking bateria viva allegro timbale finale and ultimate Joy. The track began by recording vocals and background vocals to my traps and percussion. Michael Cotten joined the project with amazing keyboard and sample contributions. Mike has also created and directed the video for Orange Joy. Next collaborations were Ross Valory from the band Journey, on bass guitar, and Eric Levy from Night Ranger, on keyboards and synthesizers. Ross delivered a vocal tribute to Paul Lynde (Wonderful!) David James of The Beth Custer Ensemble, and Diana Mangano from Jefferson Starship, recorded keyboard, bass, and guitar, along with the choral background vocals in Spanish and joyful laughter. My pop, Charlie Prince, can be heard laughing and expounding with pride and joy on this musical roller-coaster ride. Lastly, Chris von Sneidern plays acoustic guitar throughout the track and ends with a final scorching Santana-esque guitar solo and hit it out of the park! This song is dedicated to the memory of Jesse Gress – long-time partner in music, wonderful guitar player, and ardent lover of Bossa Nova music. — Prairie Prince
