This morning around 3 a.m, my Uncle Hubert passed away.  He’s the second one of my great uncles to pass away in the past year, so Greensburg, Kentucky (I was shocked too that Greensburg had its own Wikipedia page.) is grieving the loss of  two great men. When someone mentions a  “good ‘ol country boy,” I immediately think of Uncle Hubert.  He was a gentle, caring man who had these amazing mutton chops sideburns and who would greet me with one hand a powerful handshake and the other hand a comforting pat on the shoulder.  He almost always had a [...]

Well, probably the saddest I’ll ever write.  This is the song I alluded to in this tweet.  I wrote the words while driving to Charleston two weekend ago and the music while I was on the phone with a friend. A true multi-tasker at hand. This is about a pretty specific situation and there’s not much depth here. These 40 words (or so) clock in at just over 4 minutes and that’s seems just about right. Listen if you will. ::surely i do:: i do, i do i do, i do i’m sorry it took this long to understand what [...]

Janauary was named for Janus, the Roman god of two faces, one looking forward and one looking backward.  This should be a time to reflect, but to keep moving forward. “New Year’s Project” by Further Seems Forever (the best incarnation of the band with Chris Carrabba on vocals) is a powerful song, especially at this time of year. [pro-player width='500' height='253' type='video']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlNomVu3uW4[/pro-player] I wrote the following song a long time ago and under very different circumstances. I’ve associated a lot of songs with a particular month. This one is no different. This is my January song, my new year’s declaration.  [...]

I wanted to do something special for the 10th anniversary of writing this song. I wanted to record with a friend of mine singing it to share with you guys for Christmas, but I wasn’t able to get that done. I spent some time over the past few days rewriting the music to make it something more appealing to my tastes now.  Perhaps I can get this and my new year’s song re-recorded with a great singer and share it with you soon. For now, I’ll just post the words cause they mean so much to me. I’m not as [...]

maybe one day soon, i’ll be able to record this song with vocals even i can stand.  the vocals are too low for me. i wrote this after my d-string broke and took some getting used to muting that string during the rest of the song. the end of this song morphs into “i surrender all.”  sometimes morning can’t come soon enough. mourning wakes and dawn escapes the stained fog that i’ve embraced restless sleep again tonight a weak end to another weekend where is my joy? where is my morning? i am cloaked with the night sky blinded by [...]

Happy Easter! This is a first person account of what I imagine to be the thoughts going through the mind of Barabbas after being released from jail and watching Jesus take his place and then being executed.  I originally penned the song about 10 years ago but felt it was rather trite and contrived and I never really liked the music.  So last year, I completely rewrote the music rearranged the song. so how did all this come to be this dark cloud that’s hanging over me it wasn’t supposed to be like this i just wanted to make a [...]

if i were You my heart would be weathered and scarred from incessantly being healed and disappointment would stare at me all day as i try to show and speak my love to blind eyes and deaf ears and the conversations with mute tongues would leave me with a void inside frustration, only the beginning and despair would linger on i don’t understand how You can stand it i just don’t understand and worship is more than a song i can sing it’s the reason that You created me but i failed and God, i’m sorry forgive me, i’ve failed [...]