The Evening Post

My Father’s Son. From the album Arcana (The Lost Songs).

This is one of the very few songs I have written and performed where, even if I could, I would not go back and change a note or a word. All the guitar parts , except my acoustic, are performed by the amazing Waddy Wachtel.

Some, hearing this song for the first time, thought it was about financial debts. It never was.

All I’d ever claim to have been doing all these years – just looking at life.

A favorite of mine. I guess this is a consolidation of my feelings about being a ‘child of the 60s’ – I became a teenager in 1965. This was written many, many years later looking back at that tumultuous time.

“I’m trying to forget who I remember the most” – This is City of Ghosts from 2012.

From the album The Story Of It All, probably the most autobiographical song I’ve ever written: Drowning In The Silence.

I love this song primarily for the second guitar played by my dear friend Craig Snyder. But I was also quite happy with the lyrics and melody. One of my own songs I can listen to and forget I wrote it! This is This Crazy World from the album Beneath a Flagless Moon. (Also featured […]

From the album Looking At Life, this is The Empty Hours – inspired by but not exactly about the death of Anthony Bourdain. His death made me question how someone, even with his success in life, reaches a point where suicide seems the right answer. I decided it was because life – all the hours […]

THE ASHES OF DESIRE You never were the one I wanted But you were there and that was fine I never felt the need to win you Or the need to make you mine Where’s the need Where’s the fire These are just  The ashes of desire You never set my heart on fire Others […]