We wanted to write an 'Up' track with a leaning toward a gospel feel.

Human selfishness and ignorance, with a touch of "Love fixes everything" in the chorus. Unplugged acoustic demo, one voice, one guitar, one mic, one take.

My admiration for Roy Orbison was the catalyst for this song. I just wanted to write something that Roy might have liked and recorded.

TO KISS YOU ONCE MORE (written by Jack Speer, produced by Tre' Corley, vocals by Tim Buppert):

This song evolved very quickly when I saw Nancy Reagan kiss the casket of President Ronald Reagan on TV. I became extremely emotional, as It brought back images of my mother kissing my father goodbye, as he passed away suddenly, only 2 years previously to President Reagan. I realize the more upbeat songs are preferred, but the emotions of this sad occasion dictated the slower, somber meter.

A slight spin on the old timely and classic lost love in song...

A Celtic like tune about a sailor who lost his one and only love and resigns himself to roam the seas alone.

When you are caught in the middle of Loving them and moving on.

HOT WOMEN, WHISKEY AND BEER (written by Jack Speer, sung by Matt Dame, produced by John D. Willis):

When my folks moved to Central, FL, 1956, my folks initially rented a large, 2-story wood-frame house. Early after moving there, a man appeared at our front screen door, with a fairly rank odor of alcohol. My mother shooed him away, but I later learned this man was my grandmother’s brother. And, on occasion, if I did something that was deemed despicable to my mother, she would say, “You’re going to be just like your Uncle.” I thought he deserved a song. I later learned he had been a war hero on an island in the Pacific, during WWII.

BABY, COME HOME (written by Jack Speer, produced and sung by Tim Buppert):

This came from no particular inspiration, accept that I’ve thought about the numerous times I’ve driven for miles (while tunes roll through my head), without being aware of where I’ve been.