80’s Heart Throb
Old Singer Songwriter Files Have A Heart Throb Looking through my old files, and I found some of my own 80’s music that I recorded as demos but never took any further. I actually recorded a bunch of songs like … Read the rest
Category Archives: singer songwriter
Wanna Hear This Singer Songwriter On Drugs? I know all musicians are supposed to be tortured souls who need to escape the confines and restrictions of this mortal, flawed world. I know we’re supposed to be seekers always searching but never … Read the rest
You Could Be The Help This Singer Songwriter Is Looking For Some of you might not know this. But I’ve been writing a bunch of lullabies lately. And I’ve been writing the words to one of them with help from … Read the rest
Pony Dreams
Down On The Singer Songwriter Ranch As some of you know…I’ve been working on a collection of lullaby songs I call “Bedtime Buckaroos”. I just finished some lyrics a couple of days ago to another one of those songs. It’s … Read the rest
Stop Buggin’ Me
Hey…stop buggin’ me. No, not you…my brother who keeps pointing his finger at me saying, “I’m not touching you…I’m not touching you”. The hot weather reminded me of road trips with the whole family…way back when. It seemed like there … Read the rest
Singer Songwriter's Pj's
I think most singer songwriters would agree that their favorite way to “get” a song is all at once. By that I mean, words and music come to you all at the same time. I just had a nice song … Read the rest
Analog Or Digital?
Do you prefer analog or digital? I Love Digital… And That’s What Makes Me So Analog Do you prefer “back in the day”? When things were analog and straightforward? Not me. 🙂 But the guy in this song does. Check … Read the rest
I’m An Optimist
“I’m An Optimist and a Realist”, but… …I prefer optimist. I see how bad things are. Politicians can’t figure out how to work within a budget. Murder is rampant. Countries go to war at the drop of a misplaced word. … Read the rest
Name That Year For Free Music
A Singer Songwriter’s Cold, Hard Truth And Some Free Music I wrote the words, below, and recorded this song a while back. Subscribe to my newsletter (over there on the side under the guy holding the sign), and take a … Read the rest
Analog Man
I had some requests for the words to, Analog Man, a song I recently made freely available. Thanks for that. And here they are…hope you get a kick out of ’em… Stay tuned, P.S. Here’s an idea”if you’d like to … Read the rest
Get A Real Job
It’s time to get a real job because… Singer Songwriters Don’t Really Work…Do They? My own personal music business used to be full time traveling. Then, life took a few turns (as is always does), and I stopped the full-time … Read the rest
Singin In The Rain
Singer Songwriters Are Singin In The Rain of Marketing Tools Almost every day I get another link to another site for marketing my music. Or I get a link to an app for my iPhone. Or I get an email … Read the rest
Highlighting Words In My Singer Songwriter World If you’ve visited my blog before, you may have noticed that I’ve written a lot of music for kids. Well, in the past 6 months I’ve been writing some stories for kids, and some have even been … Read the rest
Singer Songwriter Carries A Dream
The Starry-Eyed-Singer-Songwriter And His Dream One day there was this young singer songwriter who fell awake. He noticed a leftover dream in his head. He shook his head… Nope…still there. He thought to himself, “If I get this dream out … Read the rest
Independence Day 2011, but then again Every Day Is Independence Day My preference, as a singer songwriter, has always been to go the “Indie” route. When I first started out (a couple of centuries ago), independent musicians didn’t stand a … Read the rest
Denver Brings The Heat This Summer That’s actual temperature…not heat index or ambient heat from sitting in the sun… And I gotta tell ya…that’s too hot. So, if we could just get Congress to shut up for a day or … Read the rest
Don’t Dis Dis Singer Songwriter For His Dissonance So… …I’m workin’ on some new music, and it occurs to me…I really like dissonance in a chord. There’s just something full and rich about 3 notes very close together in a … Read the rest
On The Road
I used to be a full-time on-the-road-singer-songwriter… And I played so many places all around the country. It was a blast. The reason I bring this up is because of some photos I recently came across. Check out the one … Read the rest
Train Of Thought
Yes…Even Singer Songwriters Can Have A Train of Thought An observant singer songwriter is always on the lookout for ways to jump start musical ideas. Sometimes lyrics from other singer songwriters spark a new idea. Sometimes it’s almost by accident. … Read the rest
Singer Songwriter Recommends Roses
This singer-songwriter isn’t a sensitive 90’s guy. But when it comes time to “mend fences,” flowers are almost perfect. When I was a singer songwriter in Nashville in the middle 90’s, I was almost always the only keyboard player on showcase … Read the rest