No Changing the Truth

No Changing the Truth – An Homage No Changing the Truth came through my creative jukebox over five years ago. It has since become my homage to the great American folk songwriter, Bob Dylan. Just to be clear, I don’t consider it a parody of Dylan’s...

The God Line

The God Line was written about three years ago. I took the writing from one of Dena’s Daily Napkins and shaped it into a song. Dena and I have co-written a number of songs over the last five years or so and this is one of my favorites. Click here to read the...

Irish Tears

Irish Tears was another tune written during my coffee house heyday period. As with most Americans born in the states, I have a mixed bag of ancestors. On my father’s side of the family, I have Scots ancestors in my family tree of genetic code. When I was young I...

Older and Wiser

Older and Wiser was written in the late 1980s during my ‘coffee house’ period of inspiration. Even though I was in my late 30s at the time, my personal experiences of youth had already faded. I had already left my teens and my 20s well behind me in the...

Beauty Rises Forth

Beauty Rises Forth was born out of a visit to the Garden of Saints which is located at the Vedanta Society of Sacramento. I think it was either in the spring or the summer of 2009 that I heard from a friend about an open meditation garden. My spiritual curiosity was...