With the release of If You Could Read My Mind, Hofmeyr renews himself again as a singer and after seven years he returns to one of the most popular music mediums in the world: country.
Juan "Floors" Oosthuizen, who won a kykNET Ghoema Award in 2015 as Best Producer, recorded and produced If You Could Read My Mind.
This album comprises 15 of country songs, including an adaptation of the song Teach Your Children, which Steve recorded with the Coleske brothers, Ewald and Arnold.
Hits fans can look forward to are Steve's versions of The Eagles' Heartache Tonight, The Gambler (popularised by Kenny Rogers), Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Steve Perry's Oh Sherrie, Joe South's Games People Play, Photograph by Ringo Starr, Hey Mr. Dream-Maker by Cliff Richard, The Bellamy Brothers' If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body, If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot, Dobie Gray's Drift Away, Gypsy Woman by Don Williams, To Make You Feel My Life by Bob Dylan (and later Garth Brooks), Glenn Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy (also a hit for Dolly Parton) and Cry To Me by The Staccatos.
If You Could Read My Mind will be available on Friday, 6 November on iTunes and in music shops countrywide, and is distributed by Universal Music SA.