Welcome
A singer-songwriter from Boulder, Colorado I am promoting two albums, The Stranger & other Apparitions and Running on Gravity.
Performing since age seven I began writing songs in early adulthood.
As co-songwriter with Bob Story for the Martian Acres Band, we shared John Lennon International
Songwriting awards and a nationwide OurStage Songwriting Competition.
We hear all the time that "our lives are lived in Chapters," and I think that's a pretty legitimate metaphor here.
For simplicity's sake,
3 Chapters will suffice.
Let me give you a hundred-yard reporter’s dash through Chapters One and Two
(this way you’ll be sure to pass the test at the end):
CHAPTER ONE:
(“let’s get this guy out of the neighborhood”). Blue- collar, inner-city upbringing; immigrant Irish-Catholic mother;
Lutheran meat-cutter father; K through 8 with the Sisters of St. Joseph; 9 through 12 with the Jesuits
(yes, moms ALWAYS do win that battle of religion).
Start college. Rock and roll, and girls. Stop college.
Join the Navy; four years hunting soviet submarines.
Then: the GI Bill; marriage, baby carriage(s);
married-student housing;
college and law school.
Jesus, that's a lot of penance to pay for the "original sin" of rock and roll, isn't it?
Onward.
CHAPTER TWO:
(“careers and stayin’ alive”). Trial attorney; prosecutor, criminal defense attorney
(working on everything from traffic to murder);
four children; working wife; two gerbils;
lots of dogs and aging parents.
"OK," said one of the Gods, "this guy's still doin' a half-assed but decent job of paying penance for his young
discovery of rock and roll. I got an idea. Let's throw a really bizarre, life-threatening disease at him.
Let's see what he 'discovers' outta that.
At this point, please return to the painting on Running on Gravity which graces the album cover.
Now perhaps you can understand "that look" which was caught and
wrought with such frightening honesty by Sharon Brown.
CHAPTER THREE:
(“Don’t sweat the small shit . . . and most of it is small shit”). Reclaimed my health.
Reclaimed my marriage. Reclaimed my soul
(whether or not it proves to be an immortal one).
And what did I 'discover' from the Gods? Why ROCK AND ROLL, of course.
These cd's ladies and gentlemen, come from the front lines of Chapter Three.
Mid-2014 Running On Gravity was warmly received. There was, of course,
the wonderful RARWRITER review.
. . . and then, seemingly from out of the blue, there came another "sweet bird of review."
SCENE MAGAZINE saw fit to take a gander at Running On Gravity,
and further saw fit to give it a multi-starred thumbs up.
Read the review here.
2018 brings alive The Stranger & other Apparitions with a beautiful cover by Sushe Felix. 13 songs
in another context might seem unlucky but
for you the listener
I truly hope is
a treat.
A singer-songwriter from Boulder, Colorado I am promoting two albums, The Stranger & other Apparitions and Running on Gravity.
Performing since age seven I began writing songs in early adulthood.
As co-songwriter with Bob Story for the Martian Acres Band, we shared John Lennon International
Songwriting awards and a nationwide OurStage Songwriting Competition.
We hear all the time that "our lives are lived in Chapters," and I think that's a pretty legitimate metaphor here.
For simplicity's sake,
3 Chapters will suffice.
Let me give you a hundred-yard reporter’s dash through Chapters One and Two
(this way you’ll be sure to pass the test at the end):
CHAPTER ONE:
(“let’s get this guy out of the neighborhood”). Blue- collar, inner-city upbringing; immigrant Irish-Catholic mother;
Lutheran meat-cutter father; K through 8 with the Sisters of St. Joseph; 9 through 12 with the Jesuits
(yes, moms ALWAYS do win that battle of religion).
Start college. Rock and roll, and girls. Stop college.
Join the Navy; four years hunting soviet submarines.
Then: the GI Bill; marriage, baby carriage(s);
married-student housing;
college and law school.
Jesus, that's a lot of penance to pay for the "original sin" of rock and roll, isn't it?
Onward.
CHAPTER TWO:
(“careers and stayin’ alive”). Trial attorney; prosecutor, criminal defense attorney
(working on everything from traffic to murder);
four children; working wife; two gerbils;
lots of dogs and aging parents.
"OK," said one of the Gods, "this guy's still doin' a half-assed but decent job of paying penance for his young
discovery of rock and roll. I got an idea. Let's throw a really bizarre, life-threatening disease at him.
Let's see what he 'discovers' outta that.
At this point, please return to the painting on Running on Gravity which graces the album cover.
Now perhaps you can understand "that look" which was caught and
wrought with such frightening honesty by Sharon Brown.
CHAPTER THREE:
(“Don’t sweat the small shit . . . and most of it is small shit”). Reclaimed my health.
Reclaimed my marriage. Reclaimed my soul
(whether or not it proves to be an immortal one).
And what did I 'discover' from the Gods? Why ROCK AND ROLL, of course.
These cd's ladies and gentlemen, come from the front lines of Chapter Three.
Mid-2014 Running On Gravity was warmly received. There was, of course,
the wonderful RARWRITER review.
. . . and then, seemingly from out of the blue, there came another "sweet bird of review."
SCENE MAGAZINE saw fit to take a gander at Running On Gravity,
and further saw fit to give it a multi-starred thumbs up.
Read the review here.
2018 brings alive The Stranger & other Apparitions with a beautiful cover by Sushe Felix. 13 songs
in another context might seem unlucky but
for you the listener
I truly hope is
a treat.