Blue Sky Days is a collection of songs about family. Of all the people we contact in the world, most of us are influenced first and most by our families, so they occupy the first place in my catalog of songs. All of the songs in this collection are my original works. Below I tell you a bit about where each song came from.

None of these recordings would have been possible without my Producer, Collaborator and Friend, Michael Cohen of Signature Studio. My thanks to him for his skill, his ideas and his undying patience throughout this project!
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Blue Sky Days

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This is the first of three songs in my 'A chuisle geal mo chroi' Suite. This Irish language phrase, referring to a daughter, literally means 'O bright beat of my heart'. These three songs were inspired while raising the bright beat of my own heart who has now grown into a lovely woman.

A Bud Thus Grows

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This is the second of three songs in my 'A chuisle geal mo chroi' Suite...the story continues. It started out as a single verse prompted by my sister Chrissy. She wanted a verse comparing a daughter to a rose for a panel in an afghan she was making for my daughter. I wrote the first verse in an Elizabethan style and left it for a while thinking that the rhyme scheme AABBCDDC would be too complex to use for more than one stanza. Then I saw Sting on television playing an antique lute. It seemed like a fun idea to write a song that would work with that (Elizabethan) instrument and the rest of the song was born.

A Hundred Miles Before Breakfast

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The third and final song in my 'A chuisle geal mo chroi' Suite. It describes a very important day in a parent's life and was inspired by a real event.

Rhyme Among the Reasons

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Somehow, about 46 years ago, I had the good fortune to meet a lady who would become my wife. She's been a best friend, partner and lover every day since. This is our story.

Unmarked Pavement

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And while we're on the subject, how about a gritty little blues tune for that special lady who still has it after 46 years!

He Told Us

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It's all too common for people to leave us before we've had the chance to celebrate what they've meant to us. This song is written without accompaniment (a cappela) in a Dorian scale as opposed to the more common major or minor scales.

Words Across The Ages

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This is a true story about a rhyme written to me by my Grandfather in 1955. My sister Chrissy found it when sorting some old papers and sent it me in December 2005. So even though I met my Grandfather, only once when I was 3-1/2 years old, we co-wrote this song ... but it took over 50 years to finish.


This is one of four themed collections of my original songs and arrangements on this website. All of them can be accessed through the panels at the bottom of the page. On the website, all songs will be provided as MP3 format which compromises sound slightly in return for download efficiency. CD-quality recordings of each collection will be available once all songs in a collection have been recorded. More about that later.