I remember a music critic once commented that Joni Mitchell lost her ability to write good songs after she was happily married and became a mother, suggesting that contentment isn’t the gold where great music is mined. Well, there is an argument for open...
Photo: DLM Shots My youngest son dug deep into the blues so convincingly that we began to believe that he had been inhabited by a 90 year old delta blues man from the 1930’s. He inspired me to explore a genre that has its own language yet...
This goes back to the beginning of my writing collaboration with Alan Kerbey 1986. If you read the post I devoted to him, you will know that when we first met and shared our work, he was wrapping up some instrumental pieces for an Aerobics workout recording. Two of...
This song sprung from the newfound bachelorhood of three men very close to me. They had all been in The One relationships and found themselves suddenly single, and all for the very same reason… hmmm. Each was kind, interesting, talented, attractive and a...
Every occasion deserves a song! If it was only that easy. I wanted to have a big concert party for our 25th, but we were still back East and half of the people we would invite were in Az and California. So we had a wonderful road trip adventure instead. We went to our...
This song is a journal entry of sorts. My love and I had been together for going on 8 years. The photo featured here was at a family wedding we attended. We were asked by the wedding photographer to give each other a kiss, sure, no problem. When most people see this...
