BORN OF GILDED MOUNTAINS is the tale of a silver screen queen from Hollywood’s golden age, disappearing to the mountain hamlet of Mercy Peak, Colorado, in order to pick up the pieces of her life and keep a promise to a long-lost friend. In this story of community, friendship, adventure, treasure hunt, lost-dreams-found, and restoration, music plays a special role. A few of the songs below are actually in the story, and a few were integral to the writing process. Join me for a virtual concert? You can hear a full playlist here, but below is a deep-dive into five extra special songs: Dream a Little Dream (Michael Bublé) Rusty (nickname for Ruby) Bright and Marybeth Spatts (later known as Mercy Windsor in her Hollywood life) grow up as pen pals who become best friends in the 1930’s and 40’s. When Marybeth is facing desolation as a young girl, and wishes she’d had a mother who might have sung her a lullaby like the one she hears a neighbor singing, Rusty writes to Marybeth to go turn on the radio, and the first song she hears will be her lullaby. That song turns out to be Dream a Little Dream,…