In 1984 George Sluizer, a Dutch director filmed RED DESERT PENITENTIARY in and around Sweetwater, Texas. This is the theme song of the lead character, Danny McMann. I played that role in the movie and wrote the music to the film. Video at:https…

Anyone see the pelicans and the dead fish floating in the oil? (In the midst of the Great Gulf Leak.) I'M NOT GONNA CRY Oil-covered pelicans smother Feathered brother. I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna cry Turtles and dolphins and…

She put a message up on Facebook. She’d wrecked her car and she couldn’t get to work. I watched to see if any of her friends would volunteer. They just wished her well There’d been a storm. The streets were frozen. Cobble stone ice on all of…

You look out the window and the creek is swelling. Slowly crossing the lawn and heading up the driveway.... Time to get the lawnmower to higher ground. TODAY IT’S GONNA RAIN - Key C G Today it’s gonna…

It's true. I never feel lonely when I'm riding.

I was visiting my mother's grave in the rural town where I went to high school. While strolling through the cemetery I came across Deana's headstone. She passed on during her first year in high school, if memory serves. Sometimes the good really…

My mom was a lifeguard when she was young and I was swimming long before I was old enough to go to school.

A Christian musician who worked with inmates at a juvenile prison told me a lot of these people had never heard a Bible story … much less of Jesus. I decided then to start doing more spiritual tunes.

The Interstate Highway system was started in the mid-50s at the height of the Baby Boom era. It was a virgin ribbon of highway stretching out in all directions. We couldn't wait to explore it.

If you were to come over to my house and watch television you would think it was 1963.