How much grief can you fit into 1:25 of music? I swung for the fences in the title track, A Whole Lot of Trouble…

101 original Americana songs inspired by photos from the Great Depression
How much grief can you fit into 1:25 of music? I swung for the fences in the title track, A Whole Lot of Trouble…
“Always shine your shoes, that’s the first thing that they look at” was earnest advice at an early age from my father, and unintended instruction in what it meant to be working class…
The Devil Lies Waiting for the Idle
I wouldn’t have tried to write a song inspired by Dorothea Lange’s iconic photo unless I felt I could halfway do it justice, musically. In the first 0:40 of Love in a Time of Want I think I might have…
No Child Hungry, and No Man Idle Too