I'm continually coming up with snippets of tunes, I must have several hundred quick voice recordings on my phone. I'm not a great piano player but I often sit at the piano first thing in the morning and sometimes musical ideas develop into songs, other times it's just 'practice'.
I'm currently re-recording about 25 tunes with the intention of releasing them on all on most streaming sites later this year.
This is a song I wrote in 2025, music first, lyrics later with a theme of insecurity. I think many artists are introverts and are searching for their 'safe' space to create in; quiet and without distractions. Running away to Zanzibar sounds great but perhaps we can only take so much solitude.
A song about thoughts of madness, but it's ok.
This is a song I wrote in 2025. I often practice slide tunes in open G or open D to 'keep my slide blues chops up'. This song developed from a riff in open D tuning on an acoustic guitar. I tend to write darker lyrics but decided to try and set a more optimistic tone despite all the 'monsters in my head', it's now time 'to let all that go'.
Written on piano in winter of 2022, the developing Ukraine war, broken promises by world leaders on Global Warming mitigation and the loss of a dear friend all inspired this one. Randee wrote most of the lyrics with some tweaking by me to match the rhythm and cadence. 'Sometimes we're graced another dance - Luck, DNA or Circumstance'.
Not sure about the synth sax, would be better with the real thing? - probably.
Climate change theme of course, getting a bit tiresome now, but it's something I feel must be repeated, we must all keep 'banging the drum', if not for us, for our children and grandchildren.