Songs Between Seasons

Songwriting

Years ago, I was in Ashland, Oregon, trying to finish a song before I was to perform at a local spot. A man on a bicycle stopped, and we got to talking about songwriting, since I was holding a guitar and working on the last verse as he was came along. “It’s a fun way to express yourself, isn’t it?” he asked me, and he winked. I told him I had been working on this one for only a couple of days, and I was close to having it finished. He wished me well and rode away. I remember sitting with my guitar, finishing the last verse of the song “Come Away”, and then practicing it several times so I would be ready when I went on stage. Songs Between Seasons is a book I have always wanted to publish, collecting songs like that one written over the last 30 years.

William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence

The title, Songs Between Seasons, is from a poem by the great writer and artist William Blake, who wrote in his poem Auguries of Innocence, “The Child’s Toys and the Old Man’s Reasons / Are the fruits of the two seasons.” My songs were written in that time of life between childhood and old age, as I struggled to understand and share what I had learned about the world around me. I wrote across the years, across continents, and I am very pleased with the record.