The doctors have me back on steroids again. That means that every night around 4:00 I’m wide awake with a new song in my head. The title rarely makes sense. That's okay. I imagine a groove and the lyrics come…

Who could have foretold that this first grader in the homemade shirt (you can tell by the McCall's-style collar) would have such a fantastic life in music? 

I'm a lucky guy. I have a wife of 37 years who loves…

In the mid-1990s I read a magazine article about a Hawaiian steel guitarist named Ralph Kolsiana. The article included Ralph’s address. He was selling cassettes of the Waikiki Swingsters recordings he had made on RCA in the 1930s with his…

A couple months ago I started posting a song every Wednesday to Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. I had hoped, as my health improved, eventually to expand to livestreaming once or twice a week. Instead, the cancer symptoms have returned in…

I owe you an apology. I promised to do many things this year, but it has turned out that battling cancer is a full-time job. Everything else has pretty much fallen by the wayside. Fortunately, I feel surrounded by the…

As many of you may know, in the fall I was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. I want to thank everyone who has written or called with their support. I think you never realize — or at least I…

Last Friday night at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta was a fantastic experience. I’m not sure what the night started out to be — a Drive-By Truckers show, a benefit for restoring old movie theaters or exactly what — but…

Last weekend Mark Johnson, Franher Joseph and I retreated to a palatial “cabin” in the North Carolina mountains to write songs for Delta Moon’s next album. Mark’s wife Jennifer and my wife Janet came along to prepare the meals and…

Cyndi Lauper’s album “She’s So Unusual” has been named to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress as an essential American recording, along with Lefty Frizzell’s “Long Black Veil”, Sam and Dave’s “Soul Man”, Richie Valens’ “La Bamba”…

This was my third time at the 30A Songwriters Festival, and, for me at least, it just keeps getting better. The festival is spread over thirty miles of Highway 30A along the beach in the Florida panhandle. Bands and…

Welcome to my new website.  

The first song I’m posting here is “Long Way to Go”, from Delta Moon’s latest album, Babylon is Falling, released September 21. 

I wanted to write a gospel-flavored song that would feature…