Angels Here

I wrote Angels Here in the late 1990s. I had experienced a dry spell around songwriting during most of the 90s and wasn’t playing much guitar at all. At the time, I was married to my second wife, Patti. We lived in a nice house in the Hollywood Park area of...

Moonlight

I wrote Moonlight during a very active period of songwriting back in the late 80s. It’s one of the songs I included on my Older and Wiser album. I’ve always been fascinated by the moon; the way it appears and disappears each month. I like to make a game of...

Brand New Day

I have learned that every day is a brand new day, full of possibility and promise. I sing this song as a positive affirmation to remind myself and others of this. I can re-start my day when it’s going sideways or not the way I would prefer. It’s in the...

Thread of Love

I wrote Thread of Love in the early 2000s. It was the first song I co-wrote with Doug Von Koss of the Noah Project. I had heard of Doug from a friend. Immediately, I began driving over to the San Francisco Bay area to join in the men’s singing circle. I have...

River City Trouble

I moved to the Sacramento area in the fall of 1981. I wrote River City Trouble in the late 80s. I was paying attention to the local and regional issues of the day and managed to include a veritable grab bag of those issues all together in one song. I think this must...