Monthly Archives: January 2009

Description of site / Songwriter’s credits to songs for new cd

For those of you who take the time to read the blogs :
This blog is intended to be an open forum. I have a section that is called Q & A because of questions that I get asked. I welcome responses and more questions to my blog but I do ask that they are [...]

How it all happened

Question: Why did I move to Nashville? Why did I decide to do an Irish album?
Answer: This is not a short answer; it’s a serendipitous journey.
In 2001 I went to Ireland with my brother Patrick. It was a graduation gift to myself and he was already a world traveler with his career after college. [...]

In 2000 the poet I couldn’t love finally spoke to me…loudly!

A Prayer for my Daughter
William Butler Yeats
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
But Gregory’s wood and one bare hill
Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind,
Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;
And for an hour I have walked and prayed
Because of the great gloom [...]