Time & Truth

(fossil 2719)

release date: Feb 1, 2019

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Time & Truth are the two stout threads that knit together these songs.
It's either Time & the truth it tells on me, or Truth & the time it takes me to tell it.

Ten tracks here – all are songs I have written, words and music, except for one lyric. The exception: track 9 is my musical setting of a famous poem by Robert Frost. The poem has finally moved into the realm of public domain in 2019, so I am now free to sing it – publicly!

It’s about Truth, and it’s about Time!

Herein you’ll find a salute to teachers, the romantic memory of a moonlit shore, a banjo tribute to the sound of a silver coin, and a train inside an old guitar. You’ll find dogs in heaven, scoundrels in hell, a grudge against infernal devices, an essay on Truth in the age of mendacity, a wistful Odyssean jazz ballad – and that lonesome fellow with his skeptical horse on a snowy evening.

All that, plus a Hallelujah chorus.

The Songs:
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1. The Moon May Never Shine This Way Again 4:03 [click to hear sample]

2. Walking Liberty 2:17 [click to hear sample]

3. Thank A Teacher 2:51 [click to hear sample]

4. A Special Kind Of Hell 2:41 [click to hear sample]

5. The Exaltation Of Blue 7:23 [click to hear sample]

6. Analog Joe 3:04 [click to hear sample]

7. When All the Famous People Are Forgot 3:45 [click to hear sample]

8. Yes Truth 4:55 [click to hear sample]

9. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening 1:39 [click to hear sample]

10. Last Train Home 3:05 [click to hear sample]