Well, it took a while but here it is, a new album. It’s called Flying Home. There are 13 songs, the oldest, A Sailor Lost At Sea, being from 1995 and the newest, Embrace Me From Afar, composed in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. The rest are from the teen years in between. […]
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Way Back When
My feeling is that, way back when, despite their problems and the state of the world, people might have said, as I did in one of the songs about their time and ours, “I’m gonna sing till the sorrow leaves me, I’m gonna play every song I know, cause down the road things’ll be much better, and that’s the only way that I can see to go.”
Embrace Me From Afar
The song below came from two sources: the thoughts expressed above and being asked to do the music for a video. The video is just the beginning of a project called “Étreinte(s)” that Jenny Lepage has been planning on working on for a long time. The English word would be “Embrace,” but there are other levels to the meaning of the French word. Here’s a link to her video:
Three Questions (for Jody)
Last year, I unexpectedly lost one of my closest friends. I once said to her that I thought that life might be just a dream. She said, “Yeah, but it’s a beautiful dream.” I agreed. I think we both always felt that, despite whatever happens, life is a wonderful, Magical adventure.
Her
It’s been quite a while since I posted anything on this site. A lot’s happened between then and now. Someday I’ll probably write about it. But in the meantime, I’ve got a bunch of new songs that I want to share with you. This first one is called “Her” and you’ll find the lyrics below. […]
The “Black Moon” Album
“Black Moon” is a guitar album. To be accurate, it’s an acoustic fingerstyle guitar album of solo instrumentals.
Suite – Scarecrow Rain from “Black Moon”
A suite of 5 small guitar pieces, a beautiful painting, and a story.
Transformation – from “Black Moon”
When I was composing this piece, I gave it a different title. But the more I listened to it, the more I felt that it should be called “Transformation” because of its effect on me. Maybe it’ll have a transformative effect on you too.
Finally Free – from “Black Moon”
A while back, I sat down with my guitar and said, “I’m going to compose a piece called Finally Free.” I felt that creating the music might actually create freedom as well. And if it turned out the way I hoped, the very least it would do would be to remind me of the possibility of freedom whenever I played or listened to it.
When I Lived – from “Flying Home”
“And when I’m dead and buried, / Long gone without a trace, / There’ll be no one to remember / The smile on my face. / When I lived, I was happy / Just to watch the Magic rise / In the world all around me / And sometimes, in her eyes.”
