Here is a mix of a song of mine called "Go."  Rachel Drew provided the spot-on harmony, Steve Dawson the studio (Kernel Sound) and recording expertise.  It is on my "live-in-the-studio" album, Things That Go Unsaid (2015).

From the album, Only One Life, recorded by Steve Dawson at Kernel Sound Studio, in 2013.  It began life as a song about "familiar strangers" and ended as a song about me!  And about aging!

Strangers

From the album Keeper of the Light (2019), recorded by Rob Arendt who also played bass and drums.  Alton Smith played accordion.  More of a song about empathy than about kindness and based on a true experience (although I have never been to El Paso or Houston!

Kindness

From the album, Keeper of the Light (2019), with Rob Arendt on bass and percussion, me on guitars (including slide!).  A hymn to insomnia.

Waiting Out The Night

From the 2019 album, Keeper of the Light, with Steve Dawson on electric guitar, bass and drums, Alton Smith on keyboards.  Recorded by Steve and by Rob Arendt.  Songwriters are supposed to write what they know.  I truly thought I was finished writing songs.

Finished

From the 2019 album, Keeper of the Light, produced by Rob Arendt at SonicSpa Studio.  Rob played bass and percussion.  Alton Smith played keyboards.  I played the guitar parts,  A song full of unsolicited advice from a father to a daughter upon her leaving home.  "There is no bottom to what we don't know" is borrowed from  Phillip Roth.

Marisa's Song (Rough Mix)

From the 2019 album, Keeper of the Light, recorded by Rob Arendt who also played bass and drums.  The first song I wrote since resuming songwriting in 2000 or so, after a 40 year hiatus.

I Wanna Be Like Man Ray

From the 2019 album, Keeper of the Light.  Bass and recording by Rob Arendt at SonicSpa Studio.  In July, 2005, I read an obituary of John Herald in the New York Times and wrote this song.  I used to listen as a teenager to his recordings with the Greenbriar Boys and as a second guitarist to Doc Watson, Ian and Sylvia and Joan Baez.

Song For John Herald

From the 2019 album, Keeper of the Light.  Linda Marie Smith on piano, harmony vocals by Rob Arendt and Steve Dawson.  Recording by Rob Arendt at SonicSpa Studio.

It All Comes Back

From the 2019 album, Keeper of the Light.  Bass, drums and recording by Rob Arendt.  Another lifetime spanning story song.

Church Yard (From the Churchyard to the Graveyard)

From the 2015 "demo" album Things That Go Unsaid.  Live in the studio: one voice, one guitar.  In 3/4 time!

Peter Zeldow

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