This song is super important to me because it came to me in a dream. This has never happened before and hasn't happened since! I had attended an old time week in WV where Rhiannon Giddens was one of the headliner speakers and woke up one morning with the words on my mind. I am also from a long line of women musicians, all of the women back to my great great grandmothers were musicians, who mostly played church organs. This song is about passing on that legacy. Working on it for the new album!

Song about someone contemplating the risk of a new relationship. Written/recorded long ago for the band Slow Creek.

This is a song about my grandfather, every word of it is true!

Written for the "Carolina Chocolate Drops" as a song pitch but was passed on. A story all too often experienced of big business taking over smaller ones and the aftermath...

Written together with Robin Monterosso, Michigan, US.

Written over Skype. I'm not sure how the story came about, but I know we wanted to write a song that went beyond the regular topics covered in contemporary songs.

All feedback appreciated!

Co-written with Scott Thorn (https://scottthorn.com/), this song was recently a second-place winner in the Dallas Songwriters Association's lyric competition. Scott has a rock-country version in the works, but this is a stripped-down acoustic take.

A man opens up - song performed by Dusty Hughes

A breakup story where refusing to accept it and trying to get back to her creates an unusual trip. This is a NEW VERSION of a song posted 2 times previously ( Old Title: I Can't Wait to See You Again) Hopefully this is a lot better.

between 1845 and 1850 there was a potato blight in Ireland. As this was the main food for the


Irish people, the end result was a million folk dying of starvation and a further million leaving their country to live in America.This song was written about three years ago to remember them.The singer Pete Kelly sings with an Irish group