My creativity seems to run in sixteen month cycles. That’s about how long I traveled to write The Rucksack Letters, how long I was in Los Angeles, how long I worked on The Flow Factory, and how long I’ve been working on my latest project, The Cowboy Cabaret. The good …
Our society tends to like warfare and blowing things to pieces we promise ourselves that there’ll be peace when the bombing ceases though I think there are some better ways of getting through our strife there’s still a certain nobility for the person that lays down their life for something …
Time is a prison for all of us and we all gotta pay our dues And When it really drags on we can’t help but sing the blues But if we see it for what it really is and all the gifts it brings Time can be our bestest friend, …
Ever since the film came out in the 80’s, Little Shop of Horrors was one of my favorite musical. Funny, engaging, and toe-tapping, it’s one of those movies that I can watch over and over again, and it never grows old. And of course, “Suddenly Seymour” was one of those …
Last year, I wrote a love song for tobacco. It’s been a fairly regular companion throughout my adult life, but I knew it was time to sever the ties so this is also a breakup song. It still took a little while to live up to the message of the …
As I start promoting my new show The Cowboy Cabaret, I should point out that while I don’t quite sound like the whiny old yodelers of yesteryear, there is still an adequate amount of country to the show. This isn’t too deter those who aren’t fans of country music from …
When I was a kid, my favorite moments We’re watching cartoons and reading comic books And of all of the heroes that I saw on the screen With their bulging pectorals and spandex everything There was one of those guys I could really connect with He was kind of a …
In our crazy little world we’ve created, we’ve come to really embrace the idea of war. Even when there’s nobody who wants to fight with us, we have this idea that life is a battlefield, every day a struggle… with our greatest foe being the people we were yesterday. To …
There’s a beautiful thing bout the place where I’m from It’s called Sarasota and its a whole lot of fun We’re known for our beaches and beautiful women Retirement villages and people with millions We get a bad rap for mistreating the homeless And get caught up in politics so …
This song was written by my friend Truman Adams, who is a multi-talented artist most known for painting murals and creating 3-D chalk art. When I learned it, he’d forgotten a couple of lyrics so I made up a few to balance out the second verse. He’s since remembered the …
