"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: …
Dandelion Wine-Song 018
"Life In Song" #18: Dandelion Wine is meant to be a duet between a man and a woman. It's kind of a movie in song, sort of a "day in the life" of a couple in love as they spend a beautiful summer day delighting in each other's company as well as in the natural world around them. To think I almost …
Young Man In A Hurry-Song 017
"Life In Song" #17: "Young Man In A Hurry" This is about as autobiographical as they come. Nothing else to say. I believe this is the first and only time I've ever recorded this song. So again, that's part of what this "life in song" project is all about, preserving some of these songs that haven't …
Old Joe-Song 016
"Life In Song" #16: "Old Joe" Another song about an imagined character. Old Joe is kind of a combination of my grandparents on my dad's side as well as other crusty old geezers I've known or seen portrayed in movies or in stories...I kind of hope when I'm really old I'll be just like him as …