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ThisThis isn't Jo Carol When this site is complete it's my intention that it will be possible for interested parties to buy my previously released CD's via PayPal, download free samples of various other songs in an MP3 format or purchase recordings of those songs on a song by song basis. It's also my intention to make available, simple recordings of the songs of my friends who have moved me with their often unheralded works. Most of these songs are ones that I've played at times in concert or informally for years. For a couple of years I've been collaborating on songwriting with my friend Jo Carol Pierce and the results will be among the songs included on an Jo Carol Pierce CD that is close to being finished. Sometime, well after the start of the production, Mark Andes (Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Firefall, Heart, to name a few) became increasingly involved and is now supervising the completion of the project. I've participated in the enterprise only marginally, showing up at the studio (Murray Music run by the wonderfully competent engineer and dazzling guitarist, David Murray) only after most of the songs were recorded. Typically, my late-comer status didn't deter me from forcefully volunteering numerous opinions. Now the project is in its final stages. The team effort, which has involved Jo Carol, her husband, William DeForrest White (also known as Guy Juke, Blackie White, and De White) Mark Andes, David Murray, Mike Vernon, Bukka Allen, Bruce Logan, Mike Cross, Mary Welch, Freddy Krc, the steel player from the Cornel Hurd Band (we didn't meet because I wasn't at that session), various other people that I'm carelessly forgetting and myself, are listening to final mixes and some nearly final mixes in preparation for mastering. I'm very pleased with the results. I think that a lot of people will like this meander through the human unconscious set to quirky, often anachronistic, takes on popular music. For people who are unfamiliar with Jo Carol and her work (which includes theatrical creations that were part of "In The West" and the thoroughly her own "Bad Girls Upset By The Truth") let me say that she is the most original songwriter of my acquaintance and that due to my admiration for her work I feel very honored that she wanted me to write with her. I love the often unusual songs that we've put together and I hope that this project will be the first of many on which we collaborate. For a long time I've set musical aspirations aside for various reasons. For the last several years I've targeted 2007 as the year that I would begin to open the door to music and see what happens. Being engaged in musical efforts can be both fulfilling and obsessive for me. I've missed the wonderful highs of writing and recording and performing. Some time ago, after many years of being a professional musician and songwriter, I came to regard what I was doing as so self-interested as to have little value as a contribution to the world. During the years that I've been away from music on various occasions people have approached me to tell me that one song or another of mine had meant a lot to them, a few of them said that they had been helped through difficult times by something I had written. Those comments have contributed to my feeling that there might be merit in my making records again. Somehow this year I will make a record of material of my own and some of our co-writes. Exactly what shape it will take is being sorted out. There's been some great response to a live broadcast of a performance of two songs on March 12 on KGSR FM radio with Rick Lyon on drums and Bobby Daniel on bass. I've been informed that one of the songs, a co-write with Jo Carol called Rock in My Shoe, will be included on KGSR's yearly CD release of live performances entitiled Broadcasts Vol. #15. If you'd like to listen to the unmastered recordings of these two songs, you'll find them on the Music link at the top of this page.
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