Drumsong (Drum Solo Contest Entry Tape, mp3)  Click to play or right click and ‘save as’ to download. Fairly recently, I ran across the original entry tape to a drumming contest I was in a few years back.   Ok, quite a few years back.  The extended drum solo this is NOT, I was actually attempting…

Whatz Up (Live at TC Buzz, mp3) (to download this, right click the link and choose save as..) One of my favorite things to do is record and perform songs I’ve written with my children.  This one (by my 9 1/2 year old daughter Lexie) is brand new and this was the first time I…

Test Drive (mp3 Of My First Apple Garageband Experiment) Last year when I bought this handy dandy Apple laptop, good for lotsa stuff, this was one of the first things I did on it.  I plugged a condenser mic into the powerbook, but since I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, I was…

Slow Down, Live, December 12, 2003 (mp3) "Slow down, you’re drivin’ too fast.  These memories won’t last if you don’t live them first." Two years ago this month, I put together a group of friends to perform the first official 100 Year Picnic show.  We had myself on vocals and acoustic guitar, Edwin Pierce on…

I’d Take You Anyplace (Alternate Guitar Solo)"Enchanted by your grace, I would spend another life with you…" Some of you have probably heard the story about how this song started with a drum track that I did for Tommy Neal.  As an experiment, I wrote a completely different song around the drum track, using a…

Make Things Right (mp3 4-track demo) "All I have I’ll give you, all I give you’ll take.  Some are meant together, some are meant to break." Sometimes you gotta do whatever it takes to hang-on to the most important thing.

Come On (mp3 8-Track Demo)  "Light the candles and let the wind blow in.  Let the kitchen curtains fly…" I wrote this song a few years ago.  In fact, it was the first song I wrote after September 11, 2001.  In addition to being an initial response to this national tragedy, it was a reminder…

Isolation (mp3 of a 4-track demo) "She said, ‘You and your isolation…  What are you tryin’ to escape from?  You can’t stand to walk away, so let me back into your life.  It takes two to make one wrong thing right.’" To me this is a country song, whatever that means these days.  It may…

Billy Bob Joe Finally, here’s a recorded version of our highly requested Billy Bob Joe, written by my daughter (who was 7 1/2 years old at the time) and her 8 year old friend Katherine.  I helped with the music, but you gotta checkout their amazing words.  I recorded this on a tascam 424 4-track…