For this Mother's Day week, a conga improvisation dedicated to Saint Monica and all the other mothers who surreptitiously provide for and incessantly pray for their children. Thanks Mom! ** this could really use a tasty melody to go with…

The last track that I'm going to upload for a while. I will be re-recording a few songs to release a LP under my own name. Hopefully it'll be good :) This one is another exploration using loops and delays. I hope you like it!

Something I did last year - A song about the crazy college days (Or Uni where applicable :) ) Bad Old Days Everybody's drinking their wine Driving slow and taking their time Better off when I sip moonshine Not rubbing alcohol 'cause I…

Written: 2004 Composer: Doug Sparling Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop. Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop. These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…

This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…

On this beach made of sand and shells and broken hearts as with so many things in this life it ends where it starts And like the waves that will roll over me you take away everything that I see So I walk to the place where the sand and sky…

This is the first of several songs in a collaboration with Laura Kepner-Adney. Laura has a beautiful voice and a gift for arranging music. It is an exciting project with more to come. Featuring Ryan Anderson on harmonica. Lyrics: As a boy…

Written and Recorded April 18, 2010 Some people accidentally delete tracks...I accidentally kept this one :) Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD, Capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity.

The longing is authentic. What more can I say.

(Tolar & Savigear 2010)