Here is the latest song challenge offered by the Minnesota Asscociation of Songwriters: . . . . . . . . Your mission this month is twofold: 1. Try creating a boundary between the production of content versus the judging…

No-one To Blame - A A J Russe Written 1st January 1988 Recorded 6th March 2022 The Shoebox Demos Vol 1 **** Nearly forgot to post this one! (it's been a busy week at work) I was 24 when I wrote it. What more can I say…

An endlessly-revolving, ever-changing face you show to the world. Which facade will you wear today? Human, robot, or monster?

This is our January submission to the REM Challenge. The song came together very quickly. Dan Will on Piano David True on Bass

When I was young we lived opposite a big play area - lots of grass and trees and bushes to rampage around - and in the middle a tarmac playground with the "amusements" - a witches hat (aka umbrella), a long rocking horse with saddles along its…

I can't find the words for that which remains unspoken mantras lost on some page they will remain words and only words will remain

2009, having fun with Johnny Stone's awesome music.

Another one where the riff came first, on the last day of RPM 2020 actually. Before all the craziness struck. I thought to myself "Oh self! That's a good riff! I will need to revisit it next year for RPM 2021." So I did. It also has a call-back…

Written and recorded as part of our family RPM project this year. :-D 13 year old Jasmine on vocals and ukulele. We wrote and recorded 10 songs under the name Cattica. It was just the best month of lockdown imaginable.

John wrote this in 1972. 9 years earlier, as an 8th grader living in West Virginia, he knew the day would come when he would "set sail" to other parts of the country/world. That day came in 1975 with a journey that ultimately landed him in New…

This is my RPM 2021 piece. This is my exploration of orchestral instruments, blended with rock instrumentation.

Sit back and get comfortable....you are here to stay...

My wife used to have a Paint horse named Dandee. When I originally recorded the song, we both said it gave us a picture in our heads of Dandee running along a beach. Originally recorded in February, 2019 for the RPM Challenge album, "The Dark…

(Remastered 22/10/2021) Now here's a bit of an oldie - the second song I ever wrote. In... 1978! I think I played it once, or maybe twice, at school assemblies. My musical peers and colleagues back then dismissed it as corny/rancid pop music…

Hey, I just improvised again this night and wanted to share what came out. Usually I'm such a perfectionist and have to get every detail right, with the effect that I don't share a lot of stuff that I do. Here I recorded the first voice…

I have never written a song about the RPM Challenge itself, until now. Have we really been here for 15 years? It needed to be fun, it needed to be a great dance number. I had the gtr riff, and realized it would be even better as a horn line. The…