Artist, Author, Television Host, Producer, and Songwriter.
Monkey Made of Sockies has had his portrait painted twice with the guitar. It may very well be his favorite instrument to play! He has also been seen with an accordion, and I hear there is a ukulele, and maybe even a banjo in his future ! Click here to download your free Wanna Be…
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I am so excited about the debut of our first music CD collaboration, Virtually Possible! The proof arrived yesterday and it sounds great! Here’s a bit of background regarding my music collaboration with Jason Shepherd: Jason Shepherd sits down with his guitar in Kentucky and records a melody. Out here in…
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I must admit that when I was a child, my hero was not a sports star, nor an actor. It was Merlin the Magician of Arthurian legend. So it’s not a far stretch of my imagination to say that when I heard Jason Shepherd’s latest instrumental, it conjured up visions of medieval England. Jason’s inspiration…
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At the end of December, Jason Shepherd sent me a beautiful instrumental, Window Seat. When I asked him what inspired the title of his song, he told me a story he had heard many years ago… There were two old men in the hospital. Both were terminal. The one by the window was happy…
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Somehow it seems fitting that my last post of 2011 is a new music release. This has been a year of wondrous music expansion. Jason Shepherd sent me the guitar and harmonic tracks to this song about a week ago. At the time, I was over the top busy (even for me) and though I…
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Hope Is Rising is the latest music collaboration between me and Jason Shepherd. The visual I got when I when I received the guitar file was that of a red-tailed hawk soaring high above the California coastline. Enjoy~ You can find this song on our CD, Virtually Possible, now available on Amazon and iTunes.…
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I thought it might be fun to tell the story behind the music and to show how this song came to life. About Fred… Jason Shepherd has a great collection of his instrumentals on Reverb Nation. I confess first I clicked on “Tell Fred To Take His Teeth Out” because the title cracked me up. …
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The music is really flowing lately! Here’s the latest collaboration with Jason Shepherd. The melody came fairly quickly, but the lyrics proved to be elusive. Then one day Jason mentioned Jimi Hendrix, angels, and out popped the lyrics. This one is about how people choose to deal (or not deal) with strife. I really like…
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I got the music file from Jason Shepherd last night and absolutely loved it! I half jokingly told Jason that I’d probably have the lyrics when I woke up in the morning. Little did I know, that the song would wake me up at 2 o’clock this morning. First came the music, then the lyrics…
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I always get pictures and emotions with Jason Shepherd’s instrumentals. This one definitely knocked me out for awhile. I was so overcome with emotion that I couldn’t even process the music. All I could do was listen. I felt a deep sense of grief for a lost loved one. A day or so later, I…
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Only in the digital age…. Jason Shepherd sits down with his guitar in Kentucky and records a melody. Next he uploads it to Dropbox . Out here in California, I download it, add more music, lyrics and my voice. We send the song back and forth to each other for ideas and inspiration until…
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