Category: Life Stories
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This is the only cover song on the album but it is so near and dear to my roots that I had to record it. I…
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One day I was in Chico’s home in San Antonio and I noticed a framed, typewritten yellowed document. I took a closer look and saw that…
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When I was at the University of Texas in Austin in the 1970s, my grandfather told me about a house his father, a banker, had…
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I originally called this song The Gift when I wrote it some years ago. Unfortunately, alcohol and drug addiction has taken a major toll in my…
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When my son Matt was in high school, he was given the assignment to write a poem in the style of Emily Dickinson. He chose…
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This is a song about an extraordinary dream I had where I suddenly found myself in a scene where the devil was in a hot…
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When my older son Matt was young and he was going out to play, I’d tell him to have fun. At some point, I added the…
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This song is a bit irreverent and certainly a departure from my first album but I’ve had the tune stuck in my head for a…
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The first song I wrote on this album was “Grace”. Grace is my four year old goddaughter and her dad is my best friend Chico. Grace…
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One of my brothers, Neil, tried heroin at the age of 15 and by the time he was 17, he was on his way to…