Living on Island Time

Island Time came to me after a busy day.  I finally sat down watching TV trying to unwind and I started thinking about our recent trip to Bonaire.  While we were down in Bonaire after leaving home during a major snowstorm, I was trying to remember if I had gotten everything done before leaving. I needed a cup of coffee desperately that first morning.  At breakfast, I ordered a cup of coffee from our waiter and twenty minutes later, I still didn’t have my cup of coffee.  Seeing the pot of coffee, I walked up to pour myself a cup and as I reached for the pot, I heard our waiter say, “I said I would get the cup for you Mon, now go back and sit down and I will bring it over to you.”  He added, “Where are you going Mon, do you need to be somewhere Mon.”  I walked back to the table and sat down.  My cup of coffee arrived after another twenty minutes.  It was then that I realized, I was now, “Living on Island Time.” 

I wrote the song that night.

Ice Cold Beer

Ice Cold Beer was written while sitting out on my front porch after a hard, hot days work.  Cooking up some burgers and dogs and tossing down a nice cold bottle of beer…….. Yea, all Ya had to do was sit and wait for a paradise. 

Larry Frazier plays congas and sings back-up
along with Charlie Tuttle on harmonica.

A Light in the Distance

Like an old sea chanty or an epic story, “A Light in the Distance” will take you on a final adventure where the wind and sea hold your fate……… and the wind calls out your name.  When I first wrote this song, most of the lyrics wrote themselves, as my mind took me on this fateful trip. It took me however, many years to come up with the final lines of the song, as I may have been too young to appreciate where the wind would take me.

Everything Considered

Everything Considered was written based on stories my dad had told me when I was a young boy about some great men he knew and several I have had the pleasure to have meet. Although the character Joe in the song is fictional, I hope I have touched upon the spirit of those stories, about the heroes who fought for freedom and the memory of these gentlemen and the countless number of fallen heroes who fought for our freedom so others wouldn’t have to. 

Burning Wood

“Burning Wood” was written during the oil crunch in the eighties.  There were long gas lines, the price of oil to heat your house was high and the winters were cold.  We lived in a small cape that had a rustic charm and decided that we would find some other way to heat our house to help keep cost down.  We went out and bought a Vermont Castings Vigilant wood stove that at the time you could buy a kit to convert it to coal if so desired.  Never did convert the stove but stayed nice and warm all winter long using the wood burning stove.  I wrote the song that first winter, while sitting by the stove on a cold winters night and it was quite a popular song, as everyone joined in the chorus “Burning Wood…….Burning Wood”.
After we moved from the cape the stove was put away and served more as decoration until most recently with the rising cost of fuel to heat our house…..once again, I’m sitting by the fire drinking my beer, singing a little song and staying nice and warm……all winter long!

Charlie Tuttle plays harmonica and sings back-up on this single.