'...whys and wonders -AND wordless prayer for Heather J., Jim L., David Garcia, Jerry W., Dr. Choi, M. Sparks, John Fitch II, and dear Zea, among many others.

'...whys and wonders -AND wordless prayer for Heather J., Jim L., David Garcia, Jerry W., Dr. Choi, M. Sparks, John Fitch II, and dear Zea, among many others.

this is a lick that i really dont know what to do with. Any suggestions as to where it should go from here?

A song that came to me when I was fishing in the rain with some of my Mamainde buddies. The Mamainde is a small endangered Amazonian tribe of 230 people in west-central Brazil. This song attempts to tell their story…

Filho Sumido is portuguese for "Lost Son". Its my little bossa way of describing what its like to be away from the place I love, Brazil. Like a lost son. Someday I may make an english version - but then, maybe not. After all, its about Brazil…

this dates back to my earlier songwriting, back to 1984. To those anxious days before the wedding vows...

The song i wrote the night my daughter was born. there was a special presence, a special grace...

wrote this song while i was all alone in the middle of a nameless creek in the amazon jungle - beautiful spot! This is from 2006 - the only song in this album that is more recent. Here I tried to use bossa chords and a modified bossa beat to…

The berimbau is a brazilian percussion/string instrument that is the foundation for this tune. Thanks to Dana (Alontoner) who added the sweet backup vocals to make this a much better piece. And thanks also to K. Scot Sparks (Alonetoner…

Created back in 1999 with the help of alonetoner K.Scot. I had translated the english lyrics into portuguese - then just decided to record both languages at the same time.