My own album Critics and Other Lovers is a work in progress, with a planned release in 2010.

About me, and the album
My daddy was a damn fine musician. He played music professionally for over 70 years. I was three years old the first time he put me in front of a microphone. Since that moment, music has been my life. I've played piano, and bass, and spent a bit of time playing rhythm guitar in a Bluegrass band. After a number of years of singing with various bands, I moved "back stage" and focused on production and songwriting.

In 2006, after receiving a really unpleasant bit of news from my doctors, I realized that it was time to silence the voices, both internal and external, that told me I could not succeed. I let some obstacles divert me from my path, but I became determined that I would finally make the music that I wanted to make - critics be damned!!

I think it takes a certain amount of bravery to decide, on the upside of fifty, to release a first album, but I've spent so much of my time and energy over the years working on other people's projects that I almost let my music slip away.

Finally, it is time to do what my heart has been telling for years. Free my voice and sing my words. I am doing this for me. You're invited to listen.

Critics and Other Lovers will be a 2 CD set, one of all original songs, and one of covers by my favorite songwriters. The hardest part of the first CD is writing enough new material. The hardest part of the second CD is deciding which songs to include from the wealth of great material. But I'm winnowing the list down.

The most exciting part of the project for me right now is that some wonderful musicians have agreed to participate. At this rate, I'll be the least talented one of the bunch.

The original title for the album was Across the Bridge, words that spoke to the situation in my life at the time. I had written a lot of songs about bridges - both crossing them and burning them. But in the last years, life has changed dramatically, and the bridge metaphor no longer fits the songs I want to include on the CD. So, a new title, based on a poem I wrote fifteen years ago. I may keep the photo of the bridge for the cover however, because no one really wants to see pictures of critics...or old lovers either.