CDs
~ The United States of Me and You ~
The Songs
1. God’s Big Blue Ball
The future of global warming
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2. America the Beautiful – Corporate Edition
Corporate America explains itself
3. The Life and Times of St. April Servino
Homelessness and the cold wind of indifference
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4. Evangelica
Millionaire pastors, 'mega-churches', and the 'Prosperity Gospel'
5. Kansas Town
From the first school shooting in 1986, to the epidemic of today, and the one question still being asked
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6. When My Eyes Were Opened
Seeing ourselves in the eyes of the forgotten and ignored
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7. Turn Off the Lights
A sad farewell to the formerly Grand Old Party
8. Justice Depends
(On Who the Devil Needs Around)
A cautionary tale of a righteous man tempted with vengeance
9. Babble On Babylon
“The Whore of Babylon”, as mentioned in the Book of Revelation, and believed to be a metaphor for a false Christianity that rises to power by riding on the back of The Beast
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10. Witch Hunt
The looming threat of Christian Nationalism
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11. The United States of Me and You
Diversity, inclusion, and restoring decency, kindness, understanding, and civil discourse to a divided nation
~ Ourglass ~
Seven years old when he first dreamed of her, and forty-seven when she finally appeared in his world, Ourglass is the story of a solitary troubadour and the ghost that haunted him through forty years of trial and error, false leads and dead ends, lost hope and several hells, until his hourglass was down to its last few grains of sand.
That’s when she came, turned his hourglass into Ourglass, and brought their lives to life.
Perhaps you, too, have been haunted by such a ghost. And maybe, within these 14 songs, you will hear their whisper across the sands of time until, at last, and quite by surprise, you discover that some ghosts never die. They just come to life.
The Songs
1. The Feather
2. When She Comes
3. Where Are You Hiding My Love
4. This Bed
5. Once
6. The Voice Between the Tides
7. The Wind
8. Pre-Mortem Conclusion
9. Promise Land
10. God's Own Daughter
11. The Old One-Two
12. Ourglass
13. Heaven Won't Be Heaven Without You
14. You and I
~ Diamonds & Coal ~
A couple of months ago I came across a cardboard box, stuffed away in the back of a cabinet in my studio. Inside, I was surprised to find dozens of old cassette tapes, dated from 35-40 years ago, and containing 70+ songs I had recorded way back in my mid to late-twenties. At first, I was delighted to find this trove of recordings, long lost and forgotten, but when I first heard these songs - or, more precisely, my voice - I was devastated. The high tenor, the three octave range, the power and emotion, the length I could hold a note - I had not heard that voice in almost 25 years. That's how long it's been since an incompetent, careless surgeon severed the nerves to my right vocal cords.
So I spent a few days living back in time, where loss is neither healed nor forgotten, then crawled my way back to the present, where I'm still performing, still recording, still writing, and still singing - not like I used to, of course, but good enough for now. And from here, listening to these old songs no longer makes me sad, but rather grateful that there is a record of what I used to sound like. So in the end, not all was lost after all - not even my voice.
Most of these songs are just guitar and vocals, recorded on a simple, portable cassette recorder. One song was recorded from a live radio broadcast, while a few of the later ones were recorded on a 4-Track cassette recorder, with full instrumentation. Originally I intended to digitize, clean up, and remaster all 70+ songs, but there is only so much you can with 40-year-old cassette tapes, and many of the songs could not be restored to my satisfaction. I may return to this project in the future, but for now, here are 15 songs to get you started.
The Songs
1. Judy
2. Stars
3. Sometimes
4. Count the Cost
5. Leslie's Song
6. Used Again Blues
7. Desert Road
8. One of These Days
9. The Ballad of David Rose
10. The Kiss
11. Father of Lights
12. In My Mind
13. No Closer to the Moon
14. Never Young
15. Right Here Inside