Artist Bio
Influences: Classical, folk, filk, novelty
Freelance writer, former software engineer, living in New Hampshire. I've been active in filk music since 1989.
Songs (15)
| #1 | The Road to Freedom |
4 Feb 2022 |
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| #2 | To Be Roger Williams |
3 Feb 2022 |
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| #3 | The Other Thirteenth Amendment |
3 Feb 2022 |
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| #4 | But Not for Thee |
4 Feb 2022 |
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| #5 | The Power of Words |
2 Feb 2022 |
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| #6 | Bully Boy |
1 Feb 2022 |
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| #7 | Thank Prohibition |
3 Feb 2022 |
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| #8 | The Wall |
2 Feb 2022 |
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| #9 | Money in the Car |
3 Feb 2022 |
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| #10 | The Burning Books of the Republic |
3 Feb 2022 |
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| #11 | My Dear Eugenicist |
3 Feb 2022 |
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| #12 | Hearst's Hemp War |
2 Feb 2022 |
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| #13 | Elegy for P. J. O'Rourke |
4 Feb 2022 |
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| #14 | Library on the Border |
2 Feb 2022 |
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| #15 | Pass the Caglia |
3 Feb 2022 |
Soundboard
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@mhorning Feb 2022
On Beams and Waves... I was originally going for Leslie's tune for "We and They", but I could never get it to work right.
But it's in A-minor. And everything Les writes is in A-minor... (ok most everything) -
@tuneslayer Feb 2022
Of course I put the line about the previous night in especially for the filikers. :)
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@ceilidh Feb 2022
I'm blaming you for having to write "SEDITION!" because your song, "But Not for Thee" planted the earworm in my brain. :)
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@berni1954 Feb 2022
About my "The Witch"
YOU SAID: "Much of that story really happened, far too many times."
Indeed it did. That's what inspired me to write it. That and a program on Catalunya's TV3 last week about witch hunts, which strangely enough were not organised by the Inquisition, but rather by local authorities. Catalunya has the rather unenviable distinction as being the country in Europe that held more witch trials than any other. -
@ceilidh Feb 2022
Welcome back! Looking foward to more songs!
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@tamsnumber4 Jan 2022
Yay to more music being made in NH!! Hope you are dug out from the snow and have a great FAWM!!
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@gmcgath Jan 2022
This will be my third FAWM, and I met the 14-song goal in both of the previous years. This year I have more free time, so I'll try for something more ambitious: songs around a theme.
The theme will be (subject to revision) "Promises broken, promises restored." It will look at a recurring pattern in US history in which people made a bold promise but left significant omissions in its implementation, leaving it to others to correct the breaches. The promise is as important and the fulfillment; the declaration of inalienable rights for all didn't match early US practice, but it gave people a rallying point, a goal to move toward. From the Pilgrims to the Declaration of Independence to the Emancipation Proclamation, each gave a promise which practice often violently contradicted, but each pointed a way toward freedom.
I've already written some songs along those lines, including "Mary Dyer" and "Washington's Slave." If I can produce 14 more of them and some are keepers, I'll say I've fulfilled this promise. If not ... Someone else write more!
