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....
Gaia’s Voice
Gaia's Voice is an original collaborative piece referring to the Goddess, Gaia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pOKdNqwOk I understand that Gaia was the ancient Greek Goddess of Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony of 700 BC, she was the 'first to arise from...
Let Your Inner Light Shine
One of my great joys is collaborating with others to create something new. A few years ago, my wife and I were at an office warming party for our good friend, Darlene. One of our other good friends, Karene, had the idea for a new song and had written down a few...
Winner, We Have a Winner!!!
For all of you that signed up right away to receive the Notes from the Meadow emails, I decided that I wanted to give you the chance to be the winner of a give-away. I had Dena design several possible prizes: Then I did the drawing on Summer solstice:...
It Ain’t Natural
In these days of genetic engineering, tons of pesticides, and other offenses to the senses, we frequently say, "It ain't natural." This song is dedicated to the spirit of FairPlay Farm and all of the unsung and unknown organic gardeners and farmers and conscious souls...
Owls at Twilight
I'm a big fan of classic children's fiction such as The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as modern children's fiction such as Guardians of Ga'hoole by Kathryn Lasky and The Great Tree of Avalon by T.A. Barron. Owls at...
Blessed
I am blessed... https://youtu.be/A3OT6Tzghw8 Blessed the Song I wrote this song - Blessed - for my life partner, Dena, back in early 2006. At that point in time, we had been married for over one year and she was out of town for a long weekend. I was missing her being...
Daddy’s Symphony
I wrote Daddy's Symphony back in the mid 80s. I was in the early stages of a productive songwriting period at that time in my life and had not yet written and recorded the songs that appear on my Older and Wiser release. I was renting out a small and sparsely...
In the Studio
In 2014, I began recording songs for my current musical project, In This Circle. It was the year after I had released my previous project, Older and Wiser, a compilation of original tunes written and recorded way back in the mid to late 80s. Older and Wiser had been...
Glass Boxes
This week's house concert video is Glass Boxes, a song I was inspired to write after reading Ayn Rand's classic and controversial book, The Fountainhead published in 1943. I was inspired by her impression of architects and their impact on society. I recall being...
House Concert Videos are Ready for You
Releasing House Concert videos In the last few months, I was finally able to edit all the music videos from my well received February 2015 house concert and they are now ready to share. There were a number of technical difficulties and frustrations with video editing...
The Man Is a Wordsmith
I have been a writer, an aspiring wordsmith, since I was a kid in grade school. I wrote in a journal, here and there. I wrote short stories about animals. I began writing poetry and songs somewhere in my twenties, after I learned how to play guitar at 16 years old. I...