Randy Gilliam may be a drummer at heart but his latest release has much to offer musically, both in style and variety of instrumentation. The album is dedicated to his home town of Bluefield which is also known as "Four Seasons Country" because the seasons are distinct. Sure enough the music is like an ode, even in the piece "Winter" where one may expect melancholic aspects it still remains upbeat, looking on the positive side of things. The four tracks corresponding to the seasons range between fourteen and eighteen minutes. What better way to start the album than with "Spring" - the season that heralds new life and good things to come. Tweeting birds open the piece as a prelude to a piano melody and strings that build up to a dramatic flourish (at one point I thought it was going to burst into the song "Love is in the Air"!), the piece then takes on a mid-tempo rhythm. This kind of thing continues for a while then the mood changes a little with the introduction of guitar riffs and airy "bah de bah" wordless vocals. Into the track "Summer" the mood is not so dramatic, instead the sound of lapping waves, sea birds, rolling piano melodies, easygoing acoustic guitar, and bouncy flutes engender a lovely sense of warm laid back summer days by the coast. A few minutes in and it changes significantly, the pace picks up and a variety of styles and sounds convey a sense of visiting different cultures enjoying themselves in the year's warmest season - just one example is the brief Jamaican steel drums evoking a day on a Caribbean island. Dramatic elements are heard again in the second half tracks "Fall" and "Winter", especially in the martial percussive start to "Fall" which also incorporates urgent and staccato synths and sweeping synth chords. The final piece "Winter" exemplifies one aspect of the album that I think is a weakness, this is the tendency on some tracks to run through a few different musical styles. It left me feeling a little disoriented regarding the seasonal theme, especially when this final track had an interlude of big band swing music harking back many decades. Four Seasons in Paradise is obviously a heartfelt musical homage to Bluefield, and in this respect it's uplifting and very pleasant listening. Though some of the musical styles are not my cup of tea I'm happy to recommend this album to people who like adult contemporary music infused with emotion.