A song I feel everyone can relate to as we all know someone that collects stuff.

Just a fun little tune.

In 1979 I was given a poem from a customer at a place I was playing at asking if I could put their words to music, they didn't want a writing credit and at 15 years old I wasn't fully aware of the whole song writing credits thing...

Suffice to say that years later when looking up the song title I found a poem that was uncredited with very similar lyrics...so likely the person that gave it to me did not write it.

I added a second verse and this recording is from 1991, when I was a "little" younger and I consider this the first song I ever wrote.

Just a catchy hook line I had that Deema and I turned into something fun.

Brent Rader on vocals.

Firing a salvo in the direction of what I call "Cookie Cutter Country Music"...

All the songs and artists sound the same it's like one giant bad song.

The co-writer (Sherwood Lumsden) of this song and I were playing a gig and an older woman came up and asked for one more song...for some reason this hit Sherwood like a ton of bricks and he deflected her to me while he quickly wrote out most of the existing chorus...and a song was born...One More Song.

A song I started writing in a more pop country sound that Deema Homsi and I worked on.

The lyrics were started by James Hancock and I have added to them but I still feel the story needs to be set up better. Based on a true story that James saw in his home town where a woman died of an OD while leaving her young son outside alone...very sad.

My old personal trainer commented one Monday morning about my eating of pizza and other not so good foods over the weekend and said you're going to end up with the big belly blues. I immediately said that a song right there...and he challenged me to write it...and so here's a rough demo of the "The Big Belly Blues".

Lyrics were written by Ron Walton and sent to me, it was written in a Neil Diamond / Barry Manilow style.