Here’s a video of me performing Sideways from my latest release, Takes: Acoustic Vérité.

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I am happy to announce that “Once Upon a Time” is now live and available on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and all of the usual places.

Thanks!

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This origin of this song is a lucid dream I had many years ago. 

At the time, I was going to college in Philadelphia and I started to explore metaphysical topics.  I experimented with meditation and I started keeping a dream journal.  All of my “self” work culminated with my first lucid dream experience.  As I delved deeper into lucid dreaming, my experiences became more intense and wonderful.  All my time and effort lead to this one amazingly vivid flying dream.

In this particular dream, I flew over different landscapes.  At first I was floating over center city Philadelphia. Then suddenly, the scene shifted and I found myself flying over some back country roads. It was nighttime and although I could not tell exactly where I was, there was something strangely familiar about the place. Eventually I found myself floating over a small white car parked in an empty lot.  I couldn’t see inside the car, but for some reason, I knew there was something happening there. The image stayed in my head and haunted me, which eventually compelled me to imagine many different scenarios. The story I tell in “In the Parking Lot” is the scenario that stuck. 

In the Parking Lot

In the parking lot
on a wintry night
her smoke signal breath
billows clouds of delight
 
Slowly the window fog
except her footprints on the windshield
in the parking lot

It ain’t much
but it’s all that she’s got
some fleeting moments
in the parking lot
 

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This is my pandemic song.

I think back to 2020 when we were in the grips of COVID.  Remember all of the uncertainty?  We didn’t know much about COVID in those early days. The lives we lived, the routines we followed, suddenly came to a halt. We locked our doors and isolated ourselves from our known world. 

I remember wiping down groceries, overdosing on hand sanitizer and doing  whatever I could to remain “safe.”  To complicate matters, we were inundated with the daily unhinged rants from the former Orange Turd occupant in the White House. 

It was a trying time and I did everything I could to cope and retain my sanity.  That’s where “Change in the Weather” came from.

Change in the Weather

Waves keep on breaking
crash at my door
all this confusion
I can’t take any more
 
I’ll ride out the storm
it can’t last forever
change in the weather
 
Cold front approaching
winds churn and growl
pressure keeps falling
minds run afoul
 
I keep holding on
and hope it gets better
change in the weather
 
In the eye of the storm
an eerie calm forms
and then you remember
change in the weather
 
Days blend together
weeks come and go
fog keeps converging
when it lifts, I don’t know
 
May it all float away
light as a feather
change in the weather

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After much delay from a cross country move to transitioning from Tangled Wire to Mud-Bop studio, I am in the final stages of preparing my new release, “The Winter.” Currently I am mixing the last song in the 10 song release. After mastering, I will be ready for roll out.

Please keep an eye on this site for further updates. Thanks for the patience!

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I am currently between studio spaces and except for some guitar strumming, on temporary musical hiatus. I have spent some of the time working on my online footprint. Moving forward, the Blog and Tangled Wire Studio sites are no more. It was a good run, but future pursuits beckon. I am hoping that I will be up and running in my next studio space in the next few months. I have a batch of songs to finish, which will lead to a new release later this spring.

In the meantime, I hope everyone hangs in there. As usual, please watch this space for future updates!

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