THE SONGWRITERS
ALL ALONG
TAKE YOUR TIME
UNTIL I FIND YOU
CHAMELEON EMOTION
CHARLIE’S SONG
SELINDA
JORDAN’S LULLABY
OUT OF MY MIND
COME BACK
These are early, early, early songs.
When I was in college, my dad gave me a guitar for Christmas one year. I found a 1959 Mel Bay book of chords and taught myself to play as many as I could.
I’d sit in my room for long stretches at a time, just playing chords back and forth and back and forth. Tiresome for anyone in the next room, but in my mind it was lightning - color, topography, sunny days and rain, a language I could almost understand - little miracles happening over and over again, changing the molecules in the air around me. I’d hum to myself, sing gibberish and play with words. All I wanted to do was make songs.
These came out of that time. Some were written on my college dorm room bed, some in the Scottish Hebrides on a study abroad, some in Boston, some in New York. Revisiting the songs brings some real cringe, I must admit. But I love them. They’re sweet, earnest, playful, yearning, not-grown-up-yet songs, and they come from a pure, joyful place in my heart of hearts that I still recognize as mine.
Click a song for lyrics and stuff.
