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Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Dave Carter Tribute (Passim Open Mic – July 20, 2021)

Monday, July 19, was the nineteenth anniversary of the loss of the great songwriter Dave Carter (August 13, 1952 – July 19, 2002).

On July 20, I played a two song tribute to Dave at the Club Passim Virtual Open Mic, consisting of:

  • Dave’s song, When I Go (Copyright © Dave Carter)
  • My tribute to Dave, Follow The Butterfly
Posted on June 24, 2021

The Thrill of Being Covered

Last Sunday, June 20, I experienced the high point, so far, of my “career” as a songwriter when Laurie MacAllister, of the band Red Molly, covered my song “Nothing Endures But The Sea“, during her set at Club Passim

Posted on January 27, 2021January 27, 2021

New Song: Let’s Pretend

This was written from the prompt “Let’s Pretend”, for the songwriting group that Peter Mulvey is running on his Patreon page.

LetsPretend

Posted on November 29, 2020December 3, 2020

New Song: We’ll Be On Zoom For Christmas

I wrote the first draft of this song as a joke, never intending to perform it. But, when I was doing my grocery shopping last week they were already playing Christmas songs. So that inspired me to finish the song. I did wait until after Thanksgiving to record it

Lyrics (a few edits since the recording)

ZoomForChristmas
Posted on November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

New Song: Penny In The Well (Dig Deep)

This was written for a song-writers-in-the-round, based on a prompt chosen by the previous month’s audience: “Penny In The Well”

Lyrics

Posted on October 16, 2020November 25, 2020

New Song: Karma

This was written based on a prompt “Find a phrase from the Presidential debates”

Lyrics

Posted on December 18, 2019December 18, 2019

New Song: Claire

This was written for a songwriters-in-the-round, at the Serendipity Cafe in Maynard MA, December 11, 2019. One of the rounds had to be a new song, written for the occasion, based on a prompt selected by the previous month’s audience. This month the prompt was “Claire is leaving!”.

Lyrics

Posted on October 29, 2019

An Autumn Medley

I put together a couple of autumn related songs: my own song “Only Autumn Knows” and the standard “Autumn Leaves“, and tried it out at the PCA Open Mike in Westford on October 27.

Posted on September 10, 2019September 10, 2019

New Song – I Ain’t Scared of Nothing

Here’s the latest song I’ve been working on, I played it out at the PCA Open Mike in Westford on September 8.

IAintScared
Posted on February 23, 2019February 24, 2019

March/April 2019 American Songwriters Contest Award

I recently learned that my song Thought I Knew (video, lyrics) won an Honorable Mention in the March/April 2019 American Songwriters Lyric Contest

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  • Dave Carter Tribute (Passim Open Mic – July 20, 2021)
  • The Thrill of Being Covered
  • New Song: Let’s Pretend
  • New Song: We’ll Be On Zoom For Christmas
  • New Song: Penny In The Well (Dig Deep)

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