In January of 2022 – the dawn of my seventh decade on this sphere – I was noodling around on my iPad watching a NetFlix special on the late, great Betty White, when I started playing some beats in Garageband. Before I knew it, I had composed a silly ditty called “Betty and the Bear” about the time she hung out with a bear at the LA zoo (she was a huge lover of animals). That started me down a path of writing and composing music that has grown to fourteen albums of original music as a singer songwriter and three sets of soundtrack music.
During the summer of 2026, I spent many hours indoors avoiding the Texas heat, which allowed me to work on two massive project. The first is a five volume set (!) called “Those Voices in My Head” that contains reimagined versions of songs I recorded but never “got right” – so I used some of the latest AI tools to generate new music and vastly improved vocals. It’s really not a greatest hits album, but it has some of the songs I consider my best. Plus it has 10 new songs, many of which were unearthed from the time I attended college in Austin in the early 80s. Warning: I was a snarky bastard back then…
The second project is “Lilly and Willy On the Fast Train to Mars“, which is an 20 song musical based on the songs I recorded earlier that were inspired by Carl Sandburg’s “The American Songbag”. When I originally wrote and recorded those songs, I always imagined a narrative arc connecting them together…and now there is a full blown musical connecting them.
…In hindsight, this didn’t come as a total surprise, because I’m a lifelong lover of both music and technology, having played guitar as a high school and college student, and DJed on the side throughout my career as an IT professional.
Click on the thumbnails below to tour the 18 albums I somehow cranked during a very fertile four years.. Or, if you wanna’ just skim the top, check out my Top 10ish favorites…
