A question all should ask...very moving song, beautifully done.

Powerful, moving, with an important message. Love the flute. A good recording and song.

I hadn't listen to this one in a while -- it was time to pay it another visit. Still loving it. The lyrics move me.

Just saw your comment about SWEET RAIN. We moved from Palmdale to San Luis Obispo in 1952.

Great job -- beautiful!

A story that needed told and you told it well -- Rock on!

What a fabulous composition. The music is gorgeous and the lyrics are so well written and so powerful. Great delivery, vocally. Nice mix-down job. Marvelous!

Hey G-no. This is a wonderful Original. Very well done friend

I love the Ideas of the Wolves running free, except I feel also for the family's making their living out there. It will remain my hope that the balance will be reached.

Eerie. Very good.

Really good Gene...

I like this a lot! Very spacey & meditative & then that last minute gets intense... Dig the vibra-slap!

Unusual haunting Oddly melodic It's all you Gene.

Great old song Gene, and you do just right.

I like this a lot Gene

Shake a fist at the perpetrators,and fore-mentors, reapers of profits, bought with the blood of the Innocent.

Lovely folk song with a message. Pretty finger picking.

I do think that the endorsement of this God fellow is very often taken for granted by many different nations,many different times throughout history....I think he might pipe up and protest one day.....good song ,not just pertinent to old Uncle Sam though.......I mean come on, Jesus is an Englishman ! ;P CJ

I have tos say that I get hacked off at how many of you guit artists get such wonderful tones, nuances and resonances on your acoustics and mine sound as flat as a cow pancake !! Recording is such an art.......this is a delightful piece ....as a mado player I appreciate the mandolin trills ....don't know if you are using the guit or a mando cos it all blends seamlessly.... Cheers Jarvo

Yup that voice is really singing this song. I think its Great! So does ,Greg,John, Terry, Home Run

I miss you brother

Love this song. RIP my friend.

superb guitar work as usual. the lyrics were hard to hear but i caught the sentiment ,the reflection and the memories of your brother. The song was short , a mixture of beauty with a sad undertone my memories of my brother aren't quite the same, we weren't close . he was older like yours but didn't treat me like a little brother. we were 4 years apart and didn't treat me very well but it is what it is .

Sweet, you always had a nice touch. Your flute playing is sounding good, better then I remember, but I don't recall a lot of songs with you playing it. What are you using for the percussions. I got a bamboo guiro and one that I think is made from some kind a of food that is hollow inside and no openings. Your sound similar to the bamboo guiro.

that's different. reindeer must have struggled with all them different bells

Haven't read the book so I don't get it but it sounds good. Your production is very good. I hear a little David Bowie in the singing, but it's still your voice. there were just a couple of lines in there that made me flash on that

So in 1951 you lived in the desert just around the corner from where I grew up , except I wasn't there until 1953 at the ripe and smelly age of 1.I think I was considering buying a house out in the same patch of desert you grew up in. Your Dad might of known a Bob Dollins, he worked at Northrop for a short while . What year did you depart?

These songs with the choir are cool. Are these friends , sounds like you got a regular choir doing back up

Small world indeed. In 1953 I was 1 and we lived on the base. In old pics the housing were those Quansot Huts. Hell, if you lived out there at 8 years no wonder you got that dreamy like recollection. It be like living on the Moon, had barren can it get, and the bright sun beating down cooking that desert, sonic booms rattleing windows. I know, I don't know when they stop doing it but I remember as far back as 1964 of our classrooms windows rattling and that 's in Palmdale. They test artilliary as well out at EAB. Fortunately I was only 1 year old back then and i was shielded from the sun by my moma's breast and taken out there before I could develope a memory.Funny thing in early '54 my folks moved just off the south end of 15th. I still live close to it. There is no hope for Peace on Earth as long as militaries stand armed and ready.

You captured the mood! Good integration of song voice and guitar. It was warm & tender despite the hard cold reality the song spoke of. Imaginitive lyrics that mixed well with the sweet simplicity of the music.

Another Palmdale resident. The horny toads you don't see to much anymore but he tumbleweeds and the wind are still here so kite flying is still around. Hey ,you forgot the rattlesnakes. I don't remember it being so dreamy though. Your song is different and somewhat interesting but I wouldn't vote for it to be the official Palmdale song. I arrived in Palmdale in 1953, maybe that's what it is.

how bout a Russian living in Mexico playing a balalaika in a mariachi band drinking tequila & married to Joesph Macarthy's daughter. That would be weirder. Before I read your profile I thought this Russian sounds more American then Hank Williams Jr. Fun song. Do you ever wonder why you hardly see any brothers playing the blues on the banjo. That would be interesting don't you think ?

how's it going friend ? I've been thinking about the future, the past, and dealing with the present.. Right now I'm just enjoying your tunes

wrong again you are from England I thought you lived in Florida cause I thought you were on a boat tied to a garden shed. Does that sound right. I'm trying to make light here for me being such a goof.

Here's where I'm confused. I recognize the voice and your out of Florida on the boat moored next to your garden shed who I thought lived in England . Roger dodger or is that wrong too. Who is your singing partner? Sounds good

now i remember the name but just don't remember much else. I always liked this song It usually has more of a kick but this is cool. I don't know who's on vocals but it works. Well done.

When you look up at the night sky from where you live does the milky way burn bright. Clusters of stars glowing from time that passed us by. Are there certain crisp, clear, windless nights, the moon hanging on the dark side and every star seemed just a little brighter then before. As far as you could see there was shimmering light flickering from the faintest and most distant stars. I try to imagine what the night sky would have looked like 30,000 years ago or a million years. How much more did stars shine before we were here. Before electricity people probably paid more attention to the night skies

The more iI listen the more brilliant it shines. There must be a bag full of songs coming out about the bottom 99 but ur lyrics are ahead of anything I've heard . this time their reloading and dancing around the golden calf, gotta love it. Great song

Love this stuff, another EZ member found their way to the alonetone , I think it will be fine but after a while the extreme numbers of songs to listen to become overwhelming. I think it would have been better to load a few songs up in intervals to keep your name out there. I'm not being pesstimistic it's just I look at it like we're on this musical conveyor and ther u are right on the front and I suppose there are some that make it a point to listen and encourage new faces but eventually we move past the front and the second and after awhile their's our songs some where in this mass collection of digital uploads.what a dark and dreary place for such lovely and enlighting music, so pure ,unlike the electronic monster creations synth and tweaked and distorted which seems to be a lot of what's here. Maybe I'm wrong, there so much here it would take more then a lifetime to listen to it all. There's a lot of real good stuff too but whose got time, I try and give people off EZ some hits I got a life to live and it's not sitting around listening to music 24/7. I don't know if your on the EZ Facebook page but Mike McLaren has come across a folk music website that looks interesting check it out. Love ur music

When's the next single due out