The Famished Patriot

1978-Song for a Father Well it’s time for another addition to This Old Guitar. Long past time actually. Song for a Father, written thirty-six years ago in 1978, originally began out of my own thoughts and concerns about the decline of fatherhood in our country. At the time, I was a member of a small […]

1977—Serenade Once again, a long gap between postings in This Old Guitar. Serenade, written in 1977, is a song of worship to the Lord. It is short, sweet, and to the point. Oh Lord, how good, and how wonderful To be sitting in your presence And enjoying You Repeat Let me serenade You For You […]

1975—The Way Up is the Way Down 1977—It’s So Easy to Worship the Lord Please read below before you listen to these songs! As I noted in my very first This Old Guitar post (March 29, 2013), I received my first guitar on my 14th birthday in 1965. Within a couple of years I began […]

1971—True Love It has been 282 days since I last posted a song to This Old Guitar. Way way way too long. For those following who have not forgotten, I have been slowly (in this case very slowly) posting songs that I have written, or participated in writing, throughout the years. My father and I […]

1970—Sweet Sorrow Well it has been a while since I posted any music to This Old Guitar. I have been going through some of the songs I have written through the years and posting them here. Sweet Sorrow was written in 1970, early in my walk with Christ. According to my count, Sweet Sorrow was […]

1970—I Am Free I wrote this song in 1970, but when I sat down to record it in 2006, I was in a wild and crazy state of mind. I cranked up the special effects and came up with the sound of a large concert hall. I added in the applause and dubbed it I […]

1971-Ever Grateful I spent my teen years in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, in a small town named Berea. We lived in a comfortable Cape Cod that sat on a large corner lot. Our big yard served as the meeting place for lots of young folks who gathered to play kickball, baseball, and shoot hoops. […]

1970-The Floating Song In early 1970, living in Berea, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, I got connected with a fella named Jim. He was a singer and he had a pretty daggone good voice. We formed a little duo called M&J and we wrote a bunch of songs together. The Floating Song is one of […]

1970—Jesus, Ken Hager, Emory Worsham, and Me I spent the Summer of 1969 traveling with a youth ministry throughout the Midwest. Ours was a team of six college-age kids hailing from Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Sweden (I think). Over the course of that summer, our time was invested with the youth groups of four […]

1969—I’ve Got Some Good News For You In my historic, personal timeline—this walk through my life via some of my musical creations—a year (or so) has now passed since I wrote the last song I posted—Change of Heart. Though listed as song No. 3 in my blog posting schedule, Change of Heart was actually the […]