American Artist Allen Ling Puts His Life's Love Stories Into a Trilogy of Songs

California-based Ling also teamed up with rap-rock band Flipsyde's Dave Lopez for production and guitar on songs like "Straight Into The Ocean" and "A Name In Your Book"

- ANURAG TAGAT

ETWEEN RUNNING a physical therapy business he owns, being the primary caregiver for his 90-year-old mother and maintaining a farm, you'd think Allen Ling wouldn't really have time and energy to become a rock artist too.

With the release of two songs and their film-like music videos - "Straight Into The Ocean" and "A Name In Your Book" - Ling picks back up on music after a long gap. The Chineseorigin, American artist based in California was singer and guitarist in a 13-piece band and apparently wrote over 200 songs sometime in the Eighties. They were "exhumed" in 2009, by which time Ling was also into comic books, publishing and executive producer for other artists like The Runaway Hearts.