i've found myself listening to this song over  & over in my car.  my fav eagles song.  the sentiment (and so much more) it speaks to.

Maybe i just love this song because i was born in Mississippi too!

In Celebration of Pops (died in 2000):

One of my fav Percy songs...

 John Broadway Tucker does an excellent cover on When A Man Loves A Woman. Do you have that David?

 and here's Try A Little Tenderness Anjela

joan has such a blessed voice, doesn't she?  i loved this song when i was a teenager - someone else was singing it though.

i love iris dement.  most either love or hate her voice.  i like the way she looks at death.

second time i've posted this.  what a GREAT LOVE SONG :-)

:-)

i'm posting 2 or 3 of my fav Tom Waits.  he's sooooooooooo good.

My fav version these days.....

thanks for the 'inspiration' mindy! 

Many on this site will not remember this song!  it dates me, for sure.  and, unless you REALLY, REALLY both LIKE and love your dad, you probably won't like this song.  haha 

very sentimental.

love the lyrics....

I decided to post 2 more Butch Hancock songs i like a lot.  they're from older albums.  this first one i love to dance to.  i love the line "i wanna see the way you cuss and the way you pray." 

 Human and Spirit.

Almost a year ago, I was blessed to spend some time at Jimmie Dale and Janet Gilmore’s home outside Austin, TX. (Jimmie leads phenomenal songwriting workshops at Esalen, Omega & The Crossings. Albert and I have both participated in the past). The Gilmore's friend (and Jimmie’s fellow ‘Flatlander’) Butch Hancock and his family were there for the weekend as well. Butch was putting together an album and we sat around the living room while Butch played some of the songs to us. It was magical and the anti-war lyrics moved me deeply. I just got the CD in the mail yesterday and I'm sharing my favorite song from Butch’s War and Peace, which is available for purchase in stores/internet sites, etc.

Jimmie Dale Gilmore: www.jimmiegilmore.com
The Flatlanders: http://jimmiegilmore.com/TFL
Butch Hancock: No official website – link to album review:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A408197

Cat.  what an artist and soul.

This one got me through my teenage years.  I still love it.

MY STANDARD DISCLAIMER: My songwriting and performing is all about the THERAPEUTIC process of it all, not the performance.

DARKNESS DECENDS

MY STANDARD DISCLAIMER: My songwriting and performing is all about the THERAPEUTIC process of it all, not the performance.

SO FAR AWAY

around the corner?

 [MY STANDARD DISCLAIMER: FIRST OF ALL, the best sounding of my songs got posted FIRST so if you're gonna listen to any, please start there (further down) instead of with the first ones you see here! My songwriting and performing is all about the therapeutic process and not good songwriting and certainly not good singing.]

Mr. Hyde is a ‘Gestalt Therapy' song in which I am singing TO an 'ex' of mine ABOUT the part of him I called ‘Mr. Hyde’.  That's why there are both 'you's' and  'he's' even though I'm talking to/about the same person.  It was amazing that after writing this song, and singing it a few times, I let go of ALL the resentment I still carried.  And it's stayed gone all these years.  We're loving friends again!

[MY STANDARD DISCLAIMER: FIRST OF ALL, the best sounding of my songs got posted FIRST so if you're gonna listen to any, please start there (further down) instead of with the first ones you see here! My songwriting and performing is all about the therapeutic process and not good songwriting and certainly not good singing.]

This song was written to that 'source with no name'  i call 'God'.   i like maslow's definition of God.  He spoke of God:
 "not as a person, but as a force, a principle, a gestalt-quality of the whole of Being, an integrating power that expresses the unity and therefore the meaningfulness of the cosmos, the dimension of depth." 
so although i know this 'source' is not a man, i still choose to 'personalize' 'God' sometimes to make communication with and about that source easier somehow. 

 [MY STANDARD DISCLAIMER: FIRST OF ALL, the best sounding of my songs got posted FIRST so if you're gonna listen to any, please start there (further down) instead of with the first ones you see here! My songwriting and performing is all about the therapeutic process and not good songwriting and certainly not good singing.]

 A little 'corny', this song did wonders for my 'fat depression'!  i had gastric bypass soon after.  haha  though still a 'big girl' in society's eyes,  i want to say i truly love the squishy, silky, softness of my fat, the FEEL of it.  too bad all the prejudice keeps most others from appreciating this 'light' side of fat too. 

 A poem to go along with the song:

This is the second, and last, song i wrote while grieving my dad's death.  it was written about a year after he died. 

WHERE ARE YOU NOW DAD?

 Where are you now Dad

Where are you now?

Can I still reach you?

I wish I knew how…

This was my very first song (with the exception of a religious song i wrote years ago).  I was living at Esalen and had just gone to see 'The Horse Whisperer' in Carmel.  There was a great slow dance scene in the movie and when i got in my car afterwards, i found myself saying (to myself) "I wonder what my life would have been like if i'd met a man who liked to slow dance as much as he liked to fuck?"

 With that, this song was born. :-)

SLOW DANCE 

I wonder what my life would have been like

if ever God had given me

[MY STANDARD DISCLAIMER: My songwriting and performing of them is all about the therapeutic process and not good songwriting and certainly not good singing.]

After this song i'm going to stop posting my own songs on 'The Latest'. IF you are interested in hearing any others, you can check out the 'MY SOUNDS' section of my profile as I may post more of them over the next few days.  THANKS! 

Lyrics:

HOW DO I

How do I let go,

please tell me…

How do I let go

of ancient dreams and

[MY STANDARD DISCLAIMER: My songwriting and performing is all about the therapeutic process and not good songwriting and certainly not good singing.]

This song 'came to me' while sitting in my hot tub here in Virginia one night. i wasn't even feeling particularly lonely at the time. since writing this, my times of feeling lonely have been much fewer and farther between......which is part of the magic of songwriting for me.

although i may put one or two more of my songs on 'The Latest', i am mostly going to post my songs now in MY SOUNDS under my profile AND also to the Usual Suspects (PLEASE don't feel obligated to listen to them all!!!)

This is a more 'fun' song (many of my songs are slow and somewhat 'heavy'). This felt like it came straight out of the 'oldies' period. haha

BACK TO ME

It’s a se-cond wind

Comin’ back to me  a

Se-cond wind

this is a VERY BIG stretch for me, posting one of my own songs.  albert was around for much of my songwriting days and understands (as i explained ad-nauseam at the time) that my songwriting and performing is all about the therapeutic process and not good songwriting and certainly not good singing.  

truly, no other therapeutic 'tool' has ever healed parts of me so deep and so quickly as this tool has.  i hope songwriting comes back around for me again (been on the back burner for a few years now).  i could write a song about an issue and the issue would 'poof', disappear.  many of the issues never to appear again or to be MUCH less so  (like grief over my dad lessened, while LOTS to do with relationship resentment,  loneliness, etc. all but disappeared due to a few songs.)  i wrote this song during my first jimmie dale gilmore workshop.  it helped lift many layers of grief i was carrying. i was at esalen working when my dad died.

since we're on Dire Straits. this is my fav.

 anyone surprised? haha

i remember playing this song over and over and over again when i lived at esalen in the mid-80's.  it grounded me somehow and always left me feeling lighter.