It's Christmas Time, Happy Time

A song about people feeling alone in the world. They got the Solitaire Blues.

Solitaire Blues

Blonde Haired West Coast Girl

The Serpent on the Mount

This is a demo of the song "By Your Side" from the album State of the Onion." It is just guitar (G&L Asat) and a vocal. The amp used is a Mesa Boogie Subway Rocket.

By Your Side (Demo)

This is a song i wrote and recorded for the St. Louis cable access show World Wide Magazine which aired between the late 1980's and eaerly 2000's. Thanks for listening and leave a comment.

Standup For St. Louis

Cruel Cats

Come Back to Me

This is a song I wrote around 1987. It was recorded on a four track cassette, but I sent it to GarageBand and added a vocal, a bass and some drums.

Older and Dumber

New Dark Age

I wrote this song back in the late 1980's for a radio station contest for a trip to the Bahamas. As part of the contest you had to mention the Bahamas and Budweiser. Anyway, I didn't win, but I did get this song out of the deal.

Bahama Bypass

This is a song I worte in 1983 for all the lost souls who went to Catholic school, or religious school adjacent. 

The high harmony during the chorus was done by my departed wife, Kathleen Cramer. I had forgotten she was on this track until I listened after many years. What a delightful surprise!

The Lonely Catholic Boy

This is a song about a guy who needs some direction from his mate. 

Take a Look in My Direction

I wrote this song in 1974. I recorded it in 2025. It started as a song between two separated lovers, but could also be one person talking to themself. This goes out to old friend Bill McKenzie. 

Postcards

Bo Diddley Shakes

I redid this song with an added guitar (wah-wah) and a remix. I hope you like it. Thanks for listening .

Regular Guy

The Road Taken

This song was written for our medical profession and the many trips my wife Kathy and I made looking for health in all the wrong places. 

Kath died in September 2019.

The Tourniquet's Too Tight

This is a song about a guy who does his best, which of course is Never Good Enough.

Never Good Enough For You

This is a song I wrote about a special day when my wife Kathy and I made a commitment to each other out of the depths of a midwestern winter. In honor of our commitment I wrote this song back in 2007, but have recorded it for our 30th anniversary of that fateful day. I hope that you like this Valentine's Eve waltz. Kathy passed away in September 2019.
Valentine’s Eve

Valentine’s Eve in the cold midwest
Where love doesn’t grow on trees.
Two hearts are left on an empty shelf.
Will no hear their pleas?

Looking for love on a darkened stage
Can’t read our lines.
Corner to corner caught in a cage
A comedy for our crimes.

Tell me the truth are you really here?
Or a vision in white.
Can it be more than the atmosphere
That pulls to the light?

Give me a line from a Pinter play
I’ll miss the cue.
Anywhere else I would gladly say
My love’s for you.

Valentine’s Eve in the cold midwest.

Valentine's Eve

The tale of a woman who knew the price of everything, but the value of nothing. An ode to Karens everywhere.

Dirty Looks

This one tells the tale of a guy who meets a lady of the evening thinking he might have a chance, but once again he is mistaken.

Available on iTunes from the album The Return of the Well Known Trout.

Itunes Return TWKT

Darkness of the Night

This is an instrumental marking the demise of the two legged dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs

This is a song that my wife, Kathy Cramer, and Tommy Wahl wrote after we spent a night in Liverpool during the Matthew Street Music Festival in 2001. 

Tommy remixed this song from my original recording and added drums and guitar. He is a recording engineer in Southern Germany and is also an accomplished musician.Tommy is a superb drummer and an excellent guitarist. I can't thank him enough for making this song come to life.

2020

Mersey's Night (Tommy Mix)

I am originally from St. Louis, Missouri. I’ve been writing songs  for over 50 years.. On this site you will hear old songs and new songs. You’ll hear songs originally recorded on a four track cassette recorder and many using GarageBand and an Apple computer. For good or bad I play all instruments on my songs and most often rely on artificial drumming through loops and other technological drummers.

I like a lot of different kinds of music from classical, to blues, jazz, rock and roll in most of its different forms. I was fortunate to grow up in a household that appreciated music and encouraged us to listen and play. I had piano lessons as a youngster for about four years. I never went on with formal training, but those lessons and fingerings remain with me today. 

On a few songs you may hear a female backing vocal which was my wife Kathy Cramer. She encouraged and inspired me to write and record my songs. She’s with me in my heart everyday.

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