Greetings Wide Awake Citizens!
 
January 8, 2025

Thanks for coming to my website. I hope this finds you well. So long 2024. It was a good year playing music with my friends and I’m looking forward to 2025.

Our last show on November 10th was titled Lake Superior Songs and was well attended. Phillip Anich sang Gordon Lightfoot’s song The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald, Ten November being the 49th anniversary of its sinking. The highlight of the night was my interviewing Tim Warren and his sons of Washburn. Tim just retired after working years on Lake Superior freighters and his sons are currently working on the big boats on the lake.

I’ve begun work on a book of my song lyrics, hopefully to be published in 2025. I started writing songs in 1963. There are nearly 500 in my song bag. Here’s a new one.

The Earth Rolls in Its old Hello

The Earth rolls in its old hello,
To welcome you to your brand new day.
Get up get out lucky you,
Another long hour to step your way.

Another day to play your time,
Sing your song and make it rhyme.
Raise your voice and howl at the moon,
Good times are coming and they’re coming soon.

How lucky are we to live here
Where the morning shines on the water
Where the afternoon stretches time
And the night falls gifted with stars
How lucky are we to live here
In the wash of the Great Lake Superior
Under the northern light that guides us all home.