This is my debut EP.

It's a combination of professionally recorded and completed tracks, as well as incomplete tracks that I've "filled in the blanks" to the best of my ability in order to complete the EP by the date I set for myself.

The title track is entirely my own work, from beginning to end, and the balance of the music on this EP was created by myself and one other musician.

My running joke has long been “That one is going to be on my album, due to be released in 2037”. That could still be true, but I wanted to get something out before then, if at all possible.

...lights pipe and settles in...

It all started in a friend’s house in about 1978 playing Dungeons & Dragons with him and his parents (What?!? It’s not like anyone is going to be surprised that I played Dungeons & Dragons).

His parents would have music on while we played. My friend made me a cassette from their albums with “Songs from the Wood” on one side and “Minstrel in the Gallery” on the other side. My love of Jethro Tull (and music, in general) was set in motion.

Fast-forward that cassette to the mid-80’s and my teenage years, in a Harrington Park basement at another friend’s house, my buddy Dave put Neil Young’s “Helpless” on the turntable.

After the song was done, I think that my reaction was simply, “Can we listen to that again?”

When I was about 17, my older, left-handed, non-guitar playing brother showed me how to play the lick from “Smoke on the Water” and “Aqualung” on my aunt’s old Sears acoustic guitar.
That was enough to get me started teaching myself how to play, (I did take some lessons, and then studied classical guitar for about a year when I first started playing, but thirty some-odd years later I’m still largely self-taught).

I loved singing, and I wanted to play guitar so that I could sing and I wanted to learn how to do all that cool stuff on acoustic and electric guitars the way that guys like Jimmy Page and Steve Howe did.

Over the intervening years, I’ve made a few aborted attempts at recording my original music, and I have ‘completed’ a few things here and there. But never in what I would consider a ‘proper studio’.

That’s finally changed with the help of a very talented musician/producer friend.

The songs on the EP range from things I’ve written over the last nine or ten years, to a relatively recent song. They differ somewhat, stylistically, but hopefully there’s still some cohesiveness to this collection of songs.

If you’ve read this, thank you for your time and I hope that you enjoy the music.
K2