🇨🇦 M, A, P, L
NOTHING BUT LOVE is an original Christmas song featuring trademark story-telling vocals from CAROLYN ARENDS with hints of country and soul—born (yes, pun intended) from imagining the anxiety Mary and Joseph must have felt before meeting their boy.
Features STEVE DAWSON'S "Hen House Popup" band and wonderfully gritty duet vocals from JOSIAH WALL.
CREDITS
released November 14, 2025
Produced by Carolyn Arends, Roy Salmond, and Steve Dawson's Henhouse Popup - Vancouver, BC
Recorded at The Warehouse Studio and Whitewater 2.0
Engineered by Sheldon Zaharko and Roy Salmond
Mixed and Mastered by Greg Reely, The Green Jacket Studios
Carolyn Arends - vocals, acoustic guitar
Josiah Wall - vocals
Steve Dawson - bandleader/electric guitars
Darryl Havers - organ
Jeremy Holmes - bass
Geoff HIcks - drums
Roy Salmond - piano
LYRICS
Nothing But Love
Carolyn Arends
Like every new mother, Mary had wondered
When her labour was done would she bond with her son right away?
But her hesitations just faded away when
She delivered at last and she looked with a gasp at his face
Nothing but love
She felt nothing but love
All her fears and her doubts, they just all got washed out in a flood
Of nothing but love
Joseph was worried, he wasn’t sure he
Should be raising a son who was not someone from his own blood
But then came the moment, and his heart exploded
From the baby’s first cry something welled up inside and it was
Nothing but love
He felt nothing but love
All his fears and his doubts, they just all got washed out in a flood
Of nothing but love
And so it was in Bethlehem
This holy scene unfolded
But what could make God come to us?
O come let us behold it …
Nothing but love
It was nothing but love
‘Cause our fears and our doubts, they could only come out in a flood
Of nothing but love
He gives nothing but love
Bring your fears and your doubts
Let them all get washed out in the flood
Of nothing but love
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