The Wish is one of those songs that has had a life of its own. I first came up with the main chord changes sometime in the mid-80s and played around with them on and off over the years. I would come up with 2 other songs that formed sort of a trilogy, having chord changes […]

The AmeriKarma album was released in 2023 and it became something bigger than I ever could have expected. It was a career-defining moment. My streaming numbers jumped 6-fold to over 3 million streams on Spotify! But the stage had been set a few years earlier. At that time the very idea of an AmeriKarma album […]

It’s not every day that a song sneaks up on you and stays with you for years and years. That’s kind of the story for me with the song One More Chance. It was back in the early 80s that I would come up with the chord changes for the verse of the song. I had […]

I recently wrote a Featured article for Goldmine Magazine where I had to pick my Top 10 albums that had an influence on my music. As you might imagine, it was not an easy assignment. Trying to narrow down all the great albums that had an influence to only 10 required a good deal of […]

Rock and Roll is what made America great. The music that was created in the USA back in the 1950s was the sound heard around the world. It inspired a generation of British teens who would bring it back to new heights in the 1960s and beyond, inspiring a new generation of American teens to […]

For years I’ve felt like the lone voice talking about rock’n’roll. That’s been changing as the term “rock’n’roll” has been making quite a comeback. People are talking about it more and it makes me feel like I might just have had some kind of effect, even if by only putting it out in the universe […]

There have only been 2 songs that I’ve heard in a dream and somehow managed to wake up and then get up and put them on tape. Day of Reckoning is one of those 2 songs. I heard this hook playing in my head. It was getting louder and I could tell that it was […]

2 years ago in September 2021 I released the DownTown Demos. The premise for this release was that I would release demos that featured the songs Live and Shadow Walk and then go in the studio and re-record new versions of them. Then listeners could compare them, like before and after photos. It was a […]

The song Superstar was originally titled Ode To A Superstar. My cousin Gordon (GT Sullivan) had written the lyrics and gave them to me on a visit to his home. We grew up writing songs together in our teenage years and he would write lyrics from time to time and give me a batch when […]

With the release of the 21st Century RnR album, I felt like I had made peace with the end of an era. The songs represented the best of the work I did with my engineer of 20 years, Ben Elliott. It was time to move on and I was ready to do it. The release of […]