Category Archives: EFS Music
There Are (Songs To Be Sung) – the album
There Are (Songs To Be Sung) was my second full-length, self-produced album. All 14 tracks were digitally recorded in 1994 at Fishtraks Studios, in Portsmouth, N.H. Jim Tierney was the recording and mixing engineer. The recording sessions were held on … Continue reading
Anytime – the album
Anytime was my first full-length, self-produced album. All 12 tracks were recorded live-to-digital on Friday, September 9, 1988. The “studio” was Mayer Auditorium, located in the basement of the Academy Building, on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, … Continue reading
Five Songs – the ep
Five Songs was my first venture into the world of Independent Music Production. It was recorded live-to-two-track analogue tape on July 7, 1982 at Reelization Studios in Rye, NH. Norm Thibeault was the owner of the studio and the recording … Continue reading
Songs of 2022
These Songs of 2022 are not songs that I wrote this past year. They are the songs that came back to haunt me; songs that I finally finished; songs that got into my head and fingers for many days at … Continue reading
“Hints Taken (8+4)”
The first “hint” came to me in a dream. Sometime in the wee hours of Thursday, March 5, 2021, I had a dream in which I was playing the guitar; slide guitar, actually. When I awoke, the tune I’d been … Continue reading
A Hymn For The New Year
When I wrote “Sing To The World,” I did not envision that it would one day become my personal “Greetings to the New Year” song. But for all the times I’ve sung this song – this hymn – at this … Continue reading
“Blue Friday”
I found this recording in the Voice Memos app on my phone back in early June when I was looking for something else. What I think of as an “audio snapshot,” it was dated February 22, 2019 and titled “Blue … Continue reading
“February 8th”
To my dear daughter, Over the past ten years – along with cards and presents, video chats and phone calls – your birthday has been celebrated and commemorated twice here on sixstr stories. Each time included a song: “Birthday” by … Continue reading
“Are You Awake?”
First things first: Happy New Year!!! Every December since 2011 I’ve put together a personal “Best of…” playlist that I call Discoveries & Resurrections. The list draws from all of the music I’ve read about, written about, discovered, listened to, heard … Continue reading
‘Tis The Season…
…to reflect and share. One day a couple of months ago, quite out of the blue, I started singing part of an old song of mine called “Pavement Ends.” I located the complete lyrics of the song, undated, on page … Continue reading
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