God I love music…..it’s been my salvation. It drew me in to doing theater as little kid and it’s what fuels me today. The way I feel when I sing is the most freeing experience. It’s almost…almost as good a natural high as a night at the gulf with the love of your life. Out of everything I enjoy doing and I am passionate about, taking a song and deciding how to sing it, or how to write it, is my drug of choice.

This song, “LAST RIDE”, was a song I wrote a little over year ago. I wanted to share it today because it’s kinda of an anniversary of the recording plus it’s the first time I wrote a song with someone who is not a songwriter by trade but who had the desire to create a song out of his experience. I’m working on another song too right now with another friend who has asked me to do the same. It’s a humbling feeling when someone comes to you and says, “Will you write a song about…?

So, we collaborated. I asked him to send me thoughts about his Dad, memories, and anything that he felt captured the pictures and emotions in his heart. There were stories of fishing, the old car, the “off color”, “not perfect” but “steady Father” that he had, and of course his last wishes.

For weeks I’d think about it, and put myself there and finally a melody came out. It was that surreal, quiet, humming, road pounding intro that you hear in the song and the story that follows.

There were two guys that made this recording happen as well….Chas Williams and Hound Brown. We cut this song together and after we finished, I definitely felt I was true to song and these guys made it happen with that sound I was searching for in my heart…that sound that described the feeling. I picture him cranking up his Dad’s old car, six pack in the back seat next to his Dad’s urn, filled with his ashes heading to his final resting place. I also pictured the windows downs, his Dad’s old music playing, and maybe even smoking a cigarette for the special occasion. A man, his Dad’s ashes, and his thoughts.

I hope you enjoy the song……”Last Ride” Click on the youtube icon below & you’ll find the audio song video on the channel or copy and paste the link below: