Songs about living (and dying), about how to live a better life in a world in distress, about how to rely less on physical trappings. 

Inspirational Songs Playlist

A lost love and a man wandering through an old mansion with metaphoric dust and ashes of his relationship. A sad but beautiful song with a great video on YouTube

Dust & Ashes

Aging musician has had enough of being on the road, so heads home for his love. Upbeat pop country tune.

Back In Baby's Arms

Back in Baby's Arms

Man believes love lasts, finds out not so much...wants her back.

Please Come Home

The man was a runaround until he met a girl he loved, then he settled down. A bit later he notices she's not as interested in him as she once was, so now he's downtrodden and laments his former ways...and now hers.

Wrong Wrong, So Wrong

Wrong, So Wrong

Touching song about a man anticipating a night with his love

The Sound of Night

The song is about a man proclaiming his love for his woman. Play it for your woman; she will love it, like he loves you. 

In the Still of the Night

This song addresses social, economic, and environment injustices around the world, focusing primarily on how the ultra-rich keep taking and resenting any suggestion that they should give more. This is a social protest song written and produced in a moody blues style.

It's a Crazy World

If you're a fan of 1960s surf songs and movies, this song will bring back memories. It's Frankie and Annette material that will get your feet moving forward and your mind moving back in time...not always a bad thing. It's about a guy in love with a girl and he doesn't mind being out of his mind in his asylum for two. New surf music from the '60s now in the 21st century.

Surfin' Asylum for Two

It's the Livin' That Counts

The title and chorus say it all: "...regrets do no good if no lesson's understood..." Have a listen and send it to someone you love who may need such advice. Thanks.

Life's Regrets

Woman leaves man so he hits the dating scene with all the usual trappings. His goal is to find a new love, but he's stuck in an emotional rut and finds out that what he's really looking for is a copy of his lost love. Old story....

Runaround

Dreaming of a better world without starving children, without pointless violence and wars, without poverty, racism and hate. The list of the bad gets long very quickly. Most people are good and decent so why aren't we doing better? Hmmmm....

I Had a Dream

Man leaves woman after avowing forever love. He's a cad. She's sad. Her friends warned her. Listen to your friends. 

Full Moon Shining

Man falls for woman who turns out to be not so nice, so now he's down and playing the blues on his steel guitar. Old story....still worth listening to if you like tasty guitar licks.

Blue Steel

Woman regrets losing a love many years earlier; she recalls that the "love was good but we forgot to try." Sound familiar? Just a sweet old fashioned country ballad some may find pleasing. 

Down Life's Road

Man catches woman kissing another man; he's not impressed. But now he's depressed so he writes a song to tell the world. You should listen to his sad story. :) 

Blues are Made for Bad News: Blues goes dream pop

Woman discovers she has missed a lot in life by chasing a career and money. Now she's slowing down with her fire and a glass of wine. She's a smart woman.

All Those Wants That Haunted

All Those Wants That Haunted (Dream Pop)

A lament about how hard many people work and still can't get ahead. One must suppose it's always been so, but one would also hope that life would be easier in the 21st Century. I Had a Dream!

Blue Collar Blue

Man is head over heels in love, i.e. "Just One Love" and he's singing her praises. He's not really at the Eiffel Tower, but it's in the lyrics. You'll have to listen to learn more.

Just One Love

Life and its inevitable twists and turns is, quite literally, a mystery for most of us. We try our best to manage the mystery to our advantage and with varying degrees of success. This song explores some of the challenges and ends with sage advice: Live Your Mystery Well. Worth thinking about...just sayin'

Live Your Mystery Well

Man gets depressed with work-a-day world so flies off to Mexico where he consumes too much tequila but then meets a beautiful Mexican girl and falls deeply in love. But then he has to return to his real life; years later, he still laments the love he left -- his Tequila Cecelia.

Tequila Cecelia

Classic story of romantic break up and heart break. Woman laments loss of her love so she does what many people do: sits in her apartment drinkin' and smokin' and feelin' alone. Nice lyrics and instrumentation in my view. What do you think? 

Smokin' Drinkin' Feelin' Alone

Smoking Drinking Feeling Alone

Man has loved woman from teen years, but never told her...dumb guy. She met someone else in the interim and the dude is a cad so now she's sad. Now the guy who loves her is back and wants to take he away to bright new days with rainbows, four leaf clovers, and sunny skies. Will it work out? You tell me...

Right Kind of Woman

Think about it: the past is a dream; we can't live it, we can only think it, so that puts it in the dream realm. And we rarely remember the past as it really was, so we tweak it to make it fit, but does the "fit" represent truth or reality? You get it: the past is a dream that we change and rearrange. The song tells the whole story in modern dream pop style.

The Past's a Dream

Modern evolution of the century-old original song so well known to so many, great vocals.

House of the Rising Sun

Just what it says: new dream pop tracks for easy listening

Blues are Made for Bad News

Special track that thousands seem to like....give a listen.

Love song done dream pop; the sentiments here will resonate with many...

Easy listening dream pop for those moments when you want it so...

Do You Have a Heart

Modern dream pop version of the century-old classic; no one's done this song like this before!

Danny Boy

Thousands of listeners really like this tune, classic easy listening dream pop

Man believes he's really lucky to have found a partner whose "kisses are fire" and who makes him feel like he's sinning. Doesn't sound too bad...

Glad I Met You

Man tells the world why he loves his woman and this emotion is especially intense in the still of the night. Hmm, that may explain the song's title. This is a slow, dreamy dream pop tune with crooning vocals and great crying guitar riffs. Give it a listen if that appeals to you. Thanks. 

This song is inspired by the words of famous write Kahlil Gibran (I've liberally changed words from the book ("The Prophet") but hopefully retained his intent. Message songs with melody aren't a bad thing! Hope you agree. Featured are the vocal styling of Steve and Andromeda.

On Life & Love

Man with wonderful vibrato vocal is glad he met her as the title suggests. It's a lovely song for anyone who loves someone and wants to show them with a love tune. Give a listen. Thanks.

The song uses the metaphor and a couple turns of phrase from Robert Frost's Winter Wind & Window Flower to create a contemporary tune. His lyrics have been dramatically changed, but he gets, and deserves, credit for a wonderful  love lost metaphor. Thanks Bob...hope you don't turn in your grave.

The Winter Wind & Window Flower

Winter Wind & Window Flower

MUSIC MADE IN CANADA: Music has been a large part of my life since my teen years when I started playing guitar. Used to play popular pop and country songs in bars, songs written by other artists but for past couple decades have focused entirely on writing and producing my own songs across a number of genres: pop, country, blues, and more recently dream pop and what I'm calling whiskey blues dream pop, a style that merges the two and that seems complimentary to my ear. I believe each style can sound good and give people pleasure: that's my goal in writing. Now I produce sounds featuring both male and female vocals as the lyrics dictate; variety is the spice of...well, you know. Thanks for listening.

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