"Life In Song" #21: "Adolescent Blues" is a humorous look back on childhood and early teen experiences from the perspective of the soon to graduate high school senior that I was in 1978. The 1st verse refers to my childhood friend Mike McTygue. The 2nd verse describes a bit of what it was like at my …
Born To Dance-Song 020
"Life In Song" #20: Born To Dance is a lot of firsts. It's the first significant love song I wrote. It's also the first song that really opened up what I could do on the guitar accompaniment. This guitar part is light years beyond anything I'd done before. I was smitten with a young lady named …
Eileen The JellyBean Queen-Song 019
"Life In Song" #19: Eileen The Jellybean Queen is really more of a "ditty" than a song. It started when this girl Eileen who was eating jellybeans at a party. I came up with the phrase Eileen the Jellybean Queen and then just created a fictitious, exaggerated character around the phrase. Disclaimer: …