All songs were recorded in the continually expanding Lone Eagle recording studio at 11 Walden Place, Huntington, New York, USA from August ’00 through February ‘07. Music and words were conceived, written and developed from Long Island, New York, to College Park, Maryland, to Boulder and Estes Park, Colorado, to Cancun, Mexico, to Whistler, B.C., Canada, to Windham, New York, to Washington, D.C., to Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mohonk, New York, to Cap Juluca, Anguilla, to Capitola, California to San Jose, Costa Rica, to Key Largo, Florida, to Snowbird, Utah, to Lincoln, New Hampshire, to Bridgetown, Barbados, to Bethel, Maine, to Guatemala City, Guatemala to Upper Jay, New York, to Nice, France, to Monterosso, Italy and everywhere I go.
- FROM OLD ‘TIL YOUNG
- UNCLE JOE’S GUITAR
- LITTLE SISTER
- OVER AND OVER / FIND YOUR WAY
- IT JUST NEVER STOPS
- TODAY WE HONOR JAKE
- BOULDER BOUND
- A BREATH UNTAKEN
- YOUR OWN LOVE SONG
- MR. TREE
- IT’S MORNING (JIM IBBOTSEN)
- NASHVILLE EAST
- DURGANVILLE
- TOAST AND BUTTER BLUES
- CINQUE TERRE TIME
- IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming – “WOW–What a Ride!”
Unknown
From Old ‘Til Young
Often what you’ve experienced is done again by your children
Uncle Joe’s Guitar
For my Uncle Joe. Thanks for the gift of your amazing guitar in the final days of your life. (See write-up.)
Little Sister
Sometimes you make a loved one the victim of a nice guitar riff!!!
Over and Over/Find Your Way
For Stephanie.
It Just Never Stops
A real hot summer night on the way to a guitar lesson in St. James, New York in my car. A little out of tune in hindsight! (Actually a lot!!)
Today We Honor Jake
Big time Bar Mitzvah, March 13, 2004.
Boulder Bound
Read the journal and feel the mountains. Guitars, Mandolin, Banjo, and introducing Lap Steel Guitar!!!!!! (Read the journal.)
A Breath Untaken
Parenthood and partnership is tough work. You try it!
Your Own Love Song
From Alfred, NY thru Barbados to Huntington to Anguilla, 25 years is a long, long time to be happy!!! I’m one lucky guy! (Read the journal.)
Mr. Tree
Yeah, like I could ever practice what I preach! (Read the journal.)
It’s Morning
A classic written by Jimmy Ibbotsen and I recorded for a friend of Taf who gave me her deceased husband’s Banjo Ukelele.
Nashville East
Special strings, and lucky you, no vocals!! (See the journal!)
Durganville
Acoustic guitar fingerpicking with brother Geoffrey’s input at the end.
Toast and Butter Blues
My first National Resophonic steel guitar, a plane ride, and we have toast and butter!
Cinque Terre Time
A surprise 50th birthday vacation in France and Italy. Formula One and hiking on the Italian coast with my Dollilicious. Engines and waves, my favorite sounds besides guitars. (See the journal!)
Is There Anybody Out There?
A Pink Floyd song I learned and then Jake did.