....another Peggy dream. She tiptoes to my room She leans over my bed And she kisses me I leave my doors unlocked so she can come to me When she misses me And I pretend that I'm asleep But that's not easy When she kisses me...

Randy Brown and I did a little co-write this evening and this is what we came up with... I MISTOOK IT FOR THE MOON Capo @ 2 Key D (Play in C positions) I was coasting across West Texas/Had my top down, it was late at night I caught a coyote…

One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield. I said to myself, "Sweet Rain." I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…

Growing up is hard. For everyone. I once had a Facebook Friend named Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick. A poet, from Midland, Texas, doing advanced studies at Sarah Lawrence. She was so good she could write a hundred pages about how she couldn…

Sequoia Memories...Capo @ 5 C Off the coast of California Where the dolphins ride the waves We stood and watched them from the cliffs above Until the sunlight went away Then we slept in ancient shadows Underneath the redwood trees…

This story is a poem sent to me by Lesley Sawyer from a blog on her MySpace site and I put it to music and am posting it so she can hear it and maybe see if it's alright. We don't know who wrote the poem. If anybody does please tell me. j mt

This song is just what it is and says what it says. It's where I am and where my hopes lie. It all just happens to fit into a song... WHEN PEGGY COMES HOME - G When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away The floor will be swept…

My motto is INWARD THRU THE FOG. One day about a month ago, Laura 'Taylor' Whitfield told me I should, "write that song." Thinking back on a fog-bound night in California, I wrote it. Norman Pilcher, a friend from Texas, and I were headed north…

PORTAL and HAPPINESS and TIME are three of the songs on my new CD, EUREKA. Short pieces. TIME There was a time when I figured my Chevy van would last forever I guess that was back when I was about thirty And there was a time when I thot…

Things add up and a song comes along to tell you what it all adds up to. Every time I try to pin down why I wrote this and to whom I wrote it it just slips out of my grasp again and smiles. The way Shannon Elizabeth used "you" in her poems always…