Chris Cates is a prolific independent artist from the mountains of North Carolina now living in Atlanta."Life's a Love Song" was born when Cates wrote and recorded a song every day in 2010 and finished in the car, job trailer and Hampton Inn while he was building one megawatt solar farms in south Georgia. One of the"greenest" musicians, in the world, Cates has recycled a million pounds of materials before moving on to build and develop almost twenty megawatts of solar in the past few years (enough to power a county or two).Life's a Love Song features Cates playing all of the instruments (drums, guitar, bass, harmonica, synths, piano, mandolin, ukulele and vocals), with John Kell on sax and backing vocals and Adair Cates and Rob Sankey on backing vocals.The album spans a few genres but really has an old school funky jazzy pop vibe with poignant lyrics and dense production. However, there are a few acoustic songs that may be the most powerful songs,"Moonlight Madness" (a co-write with Jefferson Taffet) being especially emotional.