A tribute to all who must negotiate the fog of war --without political intent. This song moves up and down Neil Young's anti-war video chart at

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This is my best Elvis impersonation, doing of course what Elvis did best  --gospel. Everybody knows it. Running is futile as all movements FROM the spot are illusory attempts to evade authentic...

We had a song that felt like a soundtrack for Ricardo Lopez' life --and death. I'm an artist, not a stalker of serial killers or a bandleader for unfocused acts of random violence. I see a lost...

Written by Norman Ball and Lonnie Glass to commemorate the 200th anniversary of R.E. Lee's birth, this song imagines Lee's thoughts at what certainly was the nadir of his career, the surrender...

The story here is, I wrote this song just prior to Johnny Cash's death. Producer Bob Johnston (Folsom Prison Blues, Nashville Skyline) got hold of it, really liked the lyric though he 'didn't...

Hallelujah is one of those rare songs that ushers from the back of the universe with a shudder. It dwells in the Valley of Majestic Doubt and demolishes sanctimony without getting sanctimonious....