I don’t know… to be or not to be a band… that is the question. I began this venture 30 years ago frantically writing away. There is a drive in all of us to do or not to do even if we cannot explain it… the passions of life… The first band was in the summer of ’88… many more to follow... make or break... no “what ifs” anyway… life happens the way life is supposed to happen and it all shifts from time to time… My philosophies are filled with the wonders of God in the vein of all faiths and all mankind. It is really the coming together of everything as one in one fulfillment of one purpose… it is all God’s experience… I’ll stop there but it always makes its way into the tunes. Music is fun, feeling, and the last legal drug. I love to write the music and I have loved the bands. The latter all seem to disappear. A solo release is appropriate. Simply You was the final band of these time periods in which I played every weekend down round Austin for a couple of years. Cycle of Your Circle is my solo band waiting to re-group. Of course now there is Tyson… a dream to play with my brother and we are having a blast! This 3-CD set, A Collection of Friends, is a culmination of old and older tunes that have graced the dust of a shelf far too long. Suddenly is the newest recording, a re-make of Twenty-Three. And make no mistake… I am still playing hard and the music is very much alive. Stylistically, it is a kind of folk/rock/country sound with a few unusual tendencies in darker lands of the psyche. Have mercy, give it a little time, and I believe you will hear the cries of the heart through the years of hell in which we all relate so well. Enjoy.