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Happy New Year – Confidence (guide word)
From Psychology Today: "Confidence is a belief in oneself, the conviction that one has the ability to meet life's challenges and to succeed—and the willingness to act accordingly. Being confident requires a realistic sense of one’s capabilities and feeling secure in...
Albums I Bought This Year 2020
Normally around this time of the year I draw up a list of 10 albums I bought during the year that made an impression on me. This year I’m doing something slightly different due to the fact that I bought a box-set that contains 37 albums and 1 DVD. As you can see from...
Supporting Rory Gallagher in the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam
On this day - 15th December - back in 1992, I had the pleasure of supporting Rory Gallagher at the famous Paradiso Club in Amsterdam, Holland with my band Albatross. We had been finishing up some dates in the south of France and I'd called our booking agent in Holland...
My Hometown Virginia – A blog from Ralph
My Hometown Virginia - A blog from Ralph I was going to write a blog and give a little bit of background on the recording process, etc. but then Ralph posted this lovely piece on Facebook and I thought to myself - this tells the same story but from a different...
10 Albums – 2019
Allison Moorer - Blood: let's kick off with a recent release - Blood from Allison Moorer. It was released in October this year and it's a really strong album, IMHO. It's her tenth album but the first on her own record label. Here's the title track, Blood.James Taylor...
Finding peace within
I came across this article recently, written by Madisyn Taylor. As you can imagine, the title caught my eye. If we are to have true peace in the world, we must first find it within ourselves. Most people agree that a more peaceful world would be an ideal situation for...
When to play “Rock Around The Clock”
As some of you may be aware, I'm still writing (just not as many songs these days). A while back, I had the following story published in "Ireland's Own" magazine. It was a thrill to have it accepted. One, two, three o’clock, four o’clock rock...Five, six, seven...
10 albums – 2018
America - Original Album Series (a 5-CD package): you probably all remember songs such as 'Horse With No Name" and "Ventura Highway" but the group America was more than just those two songs.Some of their latter albums were produced by George Martin. Here is a track...
Just Plain Folks Awards
Awards and winning often go hand-in-hand... and winning (or losing) often goes hand-in-hand with competition... and I'm just not that into competing. Hence you'll seldom see my name in competitions or up for an award. They say - whoever 'they' are - that as an artist...
Composed the soundtrack for a documentary
Recently I had the opportunity to do something new musically. Together with Ralph - you know him from the "Troubadour" CD/DVD - we composed and recorded the complete soundtrack for a documentary. It was fun to do... and like I said a new experience. It was something...