Most of these songs have waited 30 years to be recorded. Now, with full orchestration and a large sound, they are about to land on all the major streaming platforms. You can get a preview here. The first song up is the one I finished over the weekend. It is called, I’ll Know. Sometimes the […]
all we contribute- good or bad has wider impact than we imagine. The stone we throw could sink a steamer or scrap a rowboat, cause sea levels to rise, and wash back up to us. Beyond this, the stones we throw, will outlive us.
This weekend I recorded a song I wrote about 35 years ago. It is a near word for word account of a conversation with a woman who immigrated from Europe to small town New England, where she grew old but never felt accepted. It is the sort of conversation I have had many times since. […]
From the years 1985 to 1990, I spent hours a day performing music in Harvard Square and in the subway stations of Boston in Cambridge. I wrote a lot of songs during that time in part so I would have new things to play. A lot of these songs I never recorded, others I never […]
The murder of Sean Bell remains a tragedy and becomes more so as the killing of un armed black men and women by police becomes epidemic. This song was written by John Hurt with new verses.
