Tag: songwriting
“Wear Your Mask and Gloves” — A Parody (Music Video)
The world is debating whether you should wear your mask and gloves. Bob Dylan has a new album coming out. So, why not make a parody about masks and gloves using one of Bob Dylan’s best songs? So, following on the heels of “I Don’t Want to Live on the Zoom!” and “Introvert,” I present…
“They Are All Gone!” — A Song on Forgiveness Inspired by Charles Spurgeon
A few weeks ago, a friend sent me this paragraph from Charles Spurgeon’s sermon “Forgiveness Made Easy:” All our transgressions are swept away at once, carried off as by a flood, and so completely removed from us that no guilty trace of them remains They are all gone! O ye believers, think of this, for…
Merle D. Hay: One of the First Americans Killed in World War One
To most Iowans, the name “Merle Hay” is associated only with a mall in Des Moines and the road that passes in front of it, both of which bear his name. Growing up in Glidden, Iowa, I knew of Merle Hay as our hometown war hero—the first Iowan and one of the first three Americans…
Remembering Johnny Cash
September 12 marks the anniversary of Johnny Cash’s death. There are few people who I haven’t met who have impacted me as much as The Man in Black. To honor his life and legacy I’m publishing this new song—CASH. I wrote the lyrics a few years ago as my attempt to tell Johnny’s story, based…