Hello Jan, …. Got my third listen in today. … If I don´t mention a song, it´s because I haven´t heard it clearly enough to comment. LOVE TOO LATE - Well spoken, touched some old cords (and chords) with me. Has a nice roundness to it. NO NAME - Good! Thank you. Well set, with [...]
A children´s songs album in German. You English-speaking folks will probably not be that interested, so I will continue in German. Vor ungefähr sechs Wochen schrieb unsere Tochter Lena sinngemäß: Die meisten CDs mit Kinderliedern sind süßlich und überproduziert. Du bist Musiker und hast Zeit… Und dann sandte sie mir eine Liste mit Kinderliedern, die [...]
New album to be published on 27 September - ‘Mirror, Mirror’, 19 songs, 65 minutes. 12 original songs (4 of them co-written with Fred Grittner and Brad DeLong), 7 covers. Folk, rock, jazz, blues, Europeana, Americana. Quirky, angry, desperate, hopeful and simply beautiful songs, mirroring the times we are living in. Fred Grittner played electric [...]
About the 2018 album, ‘Look On My Works, Ye Mighty’, published 22 October: Songs to sing along to, songs that may make you think. Some sad ones, some funny songs. Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley (with my music) and Rainer Maria Rilke (translated into English and put to music). A song about a man with [...]
New album out now! 'Songs For Eternity' is a double album, one cd with original songs, one with covers, you´ll hear folk, rock, blues and jazz, poetry, whimsical songs, songs about birth, death and eternity (which is much toooo long), romance, hope, quiet despair, a hamster king, life and the world. Fred Grittner played electric [...]
My good friend Rex died in October 2016. I am saddened. He was a compassionate man. We did not always agree, but he was the kind of man who would carefully consider your point of view, always. And when we agreed to disagree, there never were any hard feelings on either side. He was a [...]
I´m happy to announce that the new album, ‘Sock It To Me!’ is available now! Published Monday, 29 August 2016. There are two promo videos in the video section here. RROARR!! Some loud songs this time. More blues, boogie and rock music than on the other albums. But they are balanced by jazzy tunes, folky [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my homepage! You will find some pictures here, a biography, links to a few videos, and, of course, a music store designed to make me rich and famous. Plus some links! And you can contact me via clever buttons that say (you guessed, I bet) 'CONTACT ME’ on the Bio-page [...]