My latest album Tall Tales & Wishful Thinking has just been released. It is available on all major streaming services.
This album is a departure from my previous work. Most of the songs I write are intensely personal, practically diary entries. Not so on this album. Most of the songs are comic or highly exaggerated in nature. Trust me, this will be the lightest album I will ever release. Also the shortest, only eleven tracks.Here's the track listing:
1). NURSING HOME HUSSY. This song addresses the problem of wanton sexual abandon in today's nursing homes and senior living communities. Is your grandmother a nursing home hussy?
2). ROSE OF TITANIC. The more I watch the James Cameron film Titanic, the more insufferable I find the heroine Rose. I finally take out my frustrations with her in this song.
3). SEXY SOCCER MOM. Today's kids can't comprehend that we once experienced all of the passions they do now. And they definitely have no idea how sexy mom -- or grandmom -- used to be....
4). YES I LOVED HER. This is the first of my many blues workouts on this album. This was the eighth song I wrote. I wrote all of the blues songs on this album over the course of a week during the summer of 1983 after I learned the 12 bar blues progression on the guitar. Although I was living the blues at the time, none of the songs are truly reflective of what I was feeling. They are genre exercises.
5). RAMONA CELESTE FRANCESCA. This song was written about a friend of my little sister. I used to kid her because she went by three names and I attributed a different aspect of her personality to each one. I recently saw her in person for the first time in forty years at a party. She asked me if I remembered the song I wrote about her. I said that I did. Here it is.
6). I'M WALKING. This song was the fifth one I wrote. It was one of my blues exercises and became a mainstay of my band The Atomic Enema. Many of the people who saw our band liked our version better.....
7). MY WIFE. This song is the most recent one I wrote for this album. I was inspired by attending a Jonathan Richman concert with a friend. His songs all have a knowing but oddball sensibility. I wanted to praise my wife in a similar manner.
8). YOU BETTER STOP IT. This is the 7th song I wrote. It is more of a fast rocker than a blues number, but it quickly became a mainstay of my band.
9). YOUR SOFA. This song was inspired by an actual incident. I had recently broken up with my first girlfriend. Meanwhile, a friend mine broke up with his girlfriend. His ex invited me over her house to watch a movie one evening and it felt like a fire was going to break out on her sofa. Nothing happened. I was too chicken, but I often wondered what if?....
10). ON BALTIMORE STREET. This was the 9th song I wrote. It was a naughty Atomic Enema number about Baltimore's notorious Block, which was a hub of strip clubs, peep shows, sex shops and prostitution. I had never even visited the Block before I wrote this song, but a guy could dream, couldn't he?
11). I WILL DRIVE YOU HOME. This was the 10th song I wrote. When I wrote it, I owned an olive green 1968 Chrysler Newport, which was about the size of an aircraft carrier. It was the biggest car in town. I view this song as a factual number, but some people view the car as a metaphor for something else. This song was also a mainstay of The Atomic Enema. We even arranged backing vocals....
I hope you enjoy the songs and the album. You can listen to it on these and other streaming services:
Amazon MusicApple Music
Spotify
iHeart Radio
You can buy the Kindle and paperback at Amazon and the Nook, paperback and hardcover at Barnes & Noble.
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 2, The House
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 3, This Is Us
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 4, Arrival
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 5, Methodology
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 6, Clara's Tale, Pt. 1
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 7, Clara's Tale, Pt. 2
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 8, My Tale, Pt. 1
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 9, My Tale, Pt. 2
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 10, My Tale, Pt. 3
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 11, Natalia's Tale, Pt. 1
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 12, Natalia's Tale, Pt. 2
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 13, John's Tale, Pt. 1
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 14, John's Tale, Pt. 2
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 15, Come Inside!
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 16, Marion's Tale, Pt. 1
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 17, Marion's Tale, Pt. 2
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 18, Jeanne's Tale, Pt. 1
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 19, Jeanne's Tale, Pt. 2
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 20, Lisa's Tale
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 21, Recap, Pt. 1
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 22, Recap, Pt. 2
The Haunting of 21 St. Helens Avenue, Part 23, Recap, Pt. 3
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