MUSIC: I’ve been away from the blog for a few days. Mostly I’ve been busy with other stuff. And at night I am trying to get caught up with some music production loose ends. There are always a lot of them for me. I am never satisfied with a mix or a performance. Songs are really organic beings that sound… Read more →
Tag: folk music
Don’t Be Discouraged
MUSIC: After hearing and loving “From a Distance” by Julie Gold as sung by Nanci Griffith, I started out trying to write a positive, optimistic, uplifting song. This is background music to play while you are reading my last few caregiving blurbs. I failed. Sorry. This version of Don’t Be Discouraged was recorded in GarageBand, then brought into Logic. I created… Read more →
Oh Babe, I Just Found Some Grey Hair
MUSIC: Since I am in an anniversary week, I thought I would post another song. I really don’t write that many serious songs but Oh Babe was written for one of our early anniversaries. I finished it by our fifth. We were living in Boulder at the time and when we first got there, we were just getting by. Rents were… Read more →
Tonight I Wish: for our anniversary
MUSIC: Our wedding anniversary is coming up on December 23. Kathy and I were married in 1977 in front of the Christmas tree at my parents house. I’m hoping we have a few more anniversaries together. This year because of Kathy’s Huntington’s Disease we won’t be going out to dinner. But I’ll probably have something delivered. Tonight I Wish was written… Read more →
Drool Tide Greetings
MUSIC: With Kathys health occupying me so much, I haven’t done anything about Christmas yet. No cards this year. I thought about sending a belated Christmas card I had designed but decided not to use it. We got the chairlift for Christmas and that is an excellent present! And we are still doing pretty good so I have a lot… Read more →
So you want to be a folk music star
MUSIC: I decided to mess up an old Byrds song. Read more →
East Longmeadow
MUSIC: This song has a little bit of history to it. I actually wrote it when I lived in Colorado in the 80s and it was called Aurora. I was poking fun at suburbia and Denver in that version. It is almost hard to admit that I was making fun of the place after what they went through with the… Read more →