Birds Fly South

Nov.23-Dec.9, 1994

Folk-Song that came to me before some gig out in some fields under an eerie autumn sky around the Stuttgart area.

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Silver & Steel

Oct.14, '94

Folkie love tune, not for anyone special that I know of.
This series of songs was recorded at Ted's place for a tape (later CD) we called "Gently & Quietly I'll Blow Your Mind" a sort of "unplugged" album.

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Soul Rain

July 9-10, 1992

One scene I particularly like in the movie "The Holiday" is the one in which Jude Law's character confesses to his date that he's a "weeper."

"A movie... a book... anything... I weep."

Well, I can sort of relate to that, and that's what this song is about.

It's sort of a taboo in our society for fellas to "weep," but it's not the only thing that's screwed up about our society...


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Wisdom

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By the time this song was written, our son Benjamin was born, and we had moved from the farm in Switzerland across the border to Germany.

The song is about the Holy Spirit, which some people believe to be of feminine nature, which would only make sense to me...

Under the Wings of Love

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I don't remember how or when I wrote this song, but it was toward the end of our time as "gypsies for the Lord," since we were planning to move to an apartment in Germany where we were going to spend the following years...

Summer's Born

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Some songs basically live off their riffs. You sit down, start playing that lick on the guitar that comes to you out of nowhere, and you figure it’s too good to let it go to waste, so you let the melody come with it, and eventually the lyrics…

Summer was always my favorite season, and as far as I'm concerned, it could always be summer...

Send Me Right Back to You

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Some songs take quite a while to write. I came up with this lick around '79/'80, before I set out on my journey into the world, and didn't finish it until about 12 years later