Listen to the Whispers

Well, what was a whisper back then has become pretty much a steady voice in my life by now, accompanying me & guiding me through the ups and downs of this roller roaster ride. I can only encourage anyone to heed the advice of this song. It’s worth more than cold cash…

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Maybe You Are

Sometimes at the beginning of a relationship, you’re not quite sure yet whether the person you’re with is the “right” one… They may have certain weird qualities that may scare you off a bit, and only time will do the talking.


P.S.: In this particular case, it took a while for time to do the talking, and it turned out not to have been the real thing...
Perhaps those are right who say, when you know, you just know...

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Tell Me

August 8, '96

How do you get someone to tell you what's up with them?


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The Devil Hates Me For That

Written at Ted's place near Stuttgart, Nov.18, 1994

A song I played live quite often during that time. Guess it's a typical "Mendoza lick"...

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You Shed Light Into My Heart (Thanks To You )

Nov.6-13, 1994

Song I wrote for the couple who had won me to the Lord about 18 years earlier...

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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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Life's Not a Freeway

August 19, 1994

There's no speed limit on German highways, & people drive accordingly. It can really be murderously dangerous sometimes. This song is for all the "me-first" types on German highways.

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Love-Starved Children

March 10, 1994

This song was inspired by one of the kids in our neighborhood who struck me as pretty forsaken, since her parents apparently never had time to her, so she often would tug along with us when we'd go for a walk through the woods or whatever...

Coincidentally, this song brought me to the States in 2000, via the North America Country Music Association Intl., since the song had won some kind of award the year beforehand, and I was invited to attend the following year, but that is yet another story...


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Lone Song

A song for Ted, when he had been deserted by his girl-friend whom he loved very much... Sigh!

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Life's Like a River

Dec.'92-April 20, '93

One of my more inspired attempts at a Country-Folk song.
Around this time I was bidding farewell to busking and playing more and more regular gigs...

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Where Grey Skies Won't Go

November 24, 1992

One day I got a phone call from Cesar Galehr in Austria, telling me he'd heard my tape "One Moment in Heaven" and that he needed a rhythm guitarist for his Country band.
Our first gig in Switzerland was a disaster, but I wound up playing with "Cesar & Go West" for 15 years.
On that first gig I happened to meet 2 girls from Stuttgart, gave them a tape and consequently met Ted Richley, another Christian Country musician, who not only recorded my 2 subsequent albums, but also got me into the Stuttgart Country scene and later on donated a P.A. to our cause (parts of which I'm still using.)

This song was one of my early attempts to write a Country song, although my love for Country didn't turn out to be a lasting affair, largely due to the development of the Country scene...

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Concrete Hearts

Sept.7-22, 1992

Inspired by a fairly cold conversation with an English lady I met one night busking in a pub in Constance...

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The Busker's Song

July '91 - August 19, '92

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In those days I still supported our entire family of 6 by busking in restaurants & clubs, primarily in Switzerland.

It wasn't always easy, as this song, sort of similarly to my sentiments in "My Melody" expresses...

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...

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