Jan Carson and I are holding up the wall of the Crowne Pub in Belfast. It’s 1985 and we are filming part of a series of news stories for KPRC in Houston on a project called Childrens’ Committee 10. The pub is a sacred shrine in Northern Ireland that even during the “troubles” was safe… Continue reading The Story Behind the Song – “Belfast 1985”
Category: Story Behind the Song
The Story Behind the Song – “The Middle Way”
We had completed the Wolf Song CD Project and I was cleaning up the loose ends to file and I discovered a song that I started but forgot about and never finished. I had been captivated by the idea of the fences and who was more contained, the wolves or the people. Who was the… Continue reading The Story Behind the Song – “The Middle Way”
The Story Behind the Song – “Life Outside the Box”
One day I was having a typical multi-faceted discussion with Cynthia. It started with my childhood and particularly my dad and our frequent moves. It then moved into 1) the quantum nature of consciousness and the fact that all reality is in our head – a mosaic created from external sensory input combined with memories… Continue reading The Story Behind the Song – “Life Outside the Box”
The Story Behind the Song – “Allegheny Moon”
“Allegheny Moon” is the biography of Cynthia grand mother, Edna (Nanna) Bell. You are seeing her wedding picture here. She was raised in a house overlooking the railroad line and would lie in her big feather bed and listen to the coal trains as they went by each night. Her father worked first as a… Continue reading The Story Behind the Song – “Allegheny Moon”
The Story Behind the Song – “Acorn not the Amber”
In January of 2014 I did a house concert in Austin Texas and for the first time I was able to sing “The Moments Choice (Grandpa’s Pocket Watch)” to two of my grandson’s, Greyson Gomez and Joey Stacey. Watching their smiles and share the spotlight for a few minutes was a particular pleasure. Earlier I… Continue reading The Story Behind the Song – “Acorn not the Amber”
The Story Behind the Song – “One Step”
“One Step” is on a list of ultimate folk songs. Its based in something that actually happened but is also largely apocryphal (which in the world of folk music is close enough to the truth) and yet is also pretty much made up. I wasn’t a bull rider but was a cameraman who filmed bull… Continue reading The Story Behind the Song – “One Step”
The Story Behind the Song and other Selected Short Subjects
For the past 30 some years we’ve been creating original music, video and still photography in support of good causes and to bring light into our world. Each song has a story about where it came from or what was going on when the muse whispered