When The Rain Came

Cliff Keller and I wrote this song as part of "The Game" for singer-songwriters in San Diego.  It's all about the desire for searching for something more but then realizing, perhaps your search is actually an inner one and home is really where happiness lies.  Hope you enjoy!

Land Of Milk And Honey

Same vocal and base beat but added some more instrumentation and some effects. Still work to be done. Need to record the vocal separately into the daw. Right now it's recorded with the beat.

Outside (Second Draft)

Submission for songwriting course "Songwriting Magic and Craft"

Let The Crying Days Begin

Art Rock song about build a house from the band Hyperstar

To Build My House (by Hyperstar)

Based on the Orkney tale, Johnny and the Mermaid. 'Aloor' is an old Orcadian word meaning 'alas'.

Johnny and the Mermaid

01 Bella Jean By Kittlin

My guitar is still throwing out naively simple folky / country tunes at a rate of knots. If you are of the folk bent and you want to a tune to write lyrics to - here's one from a few seconds ago. There are no words at the moment - I'm just mouthing noises to make up the tune.

Fock tune - naively simple folky tune created on the fly into my phone

When I Think Of You

Coming Up For Air - a collaboration with the Falkirk poet Janet Crawford.

Coming up for air 
Eyes are damp from tears 
Counting down from ten, nine, eight

You’re holding every hour 
Together with your trust
Every day goes, one by one 

Do not fear, lift  your eyes 
lift them up from the ground 
Trust yourself 
Look around 
Look around ... 

Reaching out for now
It will be alright 
Love and hope will, see you through

Soon the time is done
Clouds no longer drawn
The sun will burn right through

Do not fear, lift  your eyes 
lift them up from the ground 
Trust yourself 
Look around 
Look around … 

Do not fear, lift  your eyes 
lift them up from the ground 
Trust yourself 
Look around 
Look around ...


Photo by Nick WB Dawson

Coming Up For Air - by Janet Crawford & Jim Byrne (demo)

Songwriter, mostly in the Americana genre but I have wide tastes. Do my Songwriting Magic course to improve your songwriting: https://www.udemy.com/course/songwriting-magic/?referralCode=9B035131EC5154CA40CB