This song combines a couple of experiences. When I was young (well, a teenager), I went for long walks. This was just to get out of the house. We lived at the edge of town, so these walks took me on country roads, roads that ran through cornfields and passed scattered farms. A little later…
Read more →I have spent some time as a volunteer at the local public library. This library has received a number of challenges to books, especially children’s books, that some people find objectionable. I think it’s fine if people care what their kids see and do. They should keep track of internet use and gaming and streaming…
Read more →This song is loosely based on a real experience from my, well, wayward youth. We did build a shack in some woods and it was the site of many adventures. This is a kind of retro rocker, in a southern rock style. The song is available on all streaming services, and if you do not…
Read more →This song is a retro country ballad. I’m not sure why I did it, but it seems appropriate for the subject matter. I was writing about a guy who has been estranged from his kids for a long time. In fact, he ran away from home while quite young and has never stayed anywhere very…
Read more →This song is a kind of retro rocker, with a more serious thing in the lyrics. It’s about a low place in a relationship, but with some hope for something better. The song is available on all streaming services, and if you do not have a music service, you can access the song on YouTube:…
Read more →Something I’ve always wanted to do, but probably never will, is buy some land and restore it. Ideally, this would be an old farm with worn out dirt and not much good about it. Then I would convert that land back to real midwest prairie, with all of its flowers, birds, insects, and the prairies’…
Read more →This song is about a stable, long-term relationship. Sounds like it would be a boring topic for a song! But still, any relationship is made up of individuals. So this song is about how the history of relationship varies depending on who you ask. Even though the people in the relationship have experienced it together,…
Read more →I wrote this song after a trip to California where I spent time sitting next to the somewhat daunting Pacific. I was in Northern California, where the temperature was cool, the sun was strong, and the waves were impressive. I’ve been at the ocean many times and, ever since I was a kid, it has…
Read more →In September 1991, high in the Alps, hikers discovered a body. At first they thought it was a modern murder victim, but further analysis showed that it was the mummy of a man who perished around 5000 years ago. He was in remarkable preservation and his body had begun to emerge from a glacier when…
Read more →This is a pretty straight forward blues song, and with a male singer, might be a “woman done me wrong” kind of tune. But I see it a little differently. The “you“ in this song might be a lover, might be a family member, it might even be a dog. Or it might be eyesight,…
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