"You're over my heart, hanging around my neck - covered in buckskin and beads." This is a song that I wrote for some friends a long time ago. Since that time, I became very close to a couple of Crow girls - twins in fact - who came into my life during a few distinct times. I remember the day they … [Read more...] about Medicine To Me
Seven Below
“Dad you should of seen the bird in front of me - he was bigger than you. And the moon went down on a buffalo." When your little boy tells you words like this and you’re a songwriter, your job is pretty easy. When Sam was only four years old we went out on the coldest day of the winter to feed the … [Read more...] about Seven Below
Buckaroo Ball
When you think back to the grand old turn of the century days of the west, you can't help but think of Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show. Sure, Bill may have been a little bit full of himself but you've got to give him credit for painting a picture of a recently tamed west that he pushed out … [Read more...] about Buckaroo Ball
Elizabeth’s Floor
I guess there comes a time in everyone's life when they need to get away from everyone so they can see themselves a little better. Looking back on it, I may have carried that to kind of an extreme when I was wintering out one year up in the Gila Wilderness of south western New Mexico. I had my … [Read more...] about Elizabeth’s Floor
Changes
There are lessons to be learned that lie between the hands that hold a set of reins and the horse that they are speaking to. When a man approaches the natural softness of a horse with softness in his hands and in his thinking, a level of harmony can be reached that can change his relationship with … [Read more...] about Changes
El Grito
El Grito is the Mexican shout, the high pitched cry that is released from an impassioned singer during an especially moving song. It originates from the pain that has been locked up inside of a free heart for too long; a pain that stems from working too much for too little in a place that is too … [Read more...] about El Grito
A Song Of Cuba
In another land and another time, inside the swirl of blue smoke traffic, horse cart vendors, and roadside travelers, there floats a song. The lyrics are spanish - the melody universal. It plays in the open 5th intervals of women talking to men, the minor triads of women talking to women and the … [Read more...] about A Song Of Cuba
