Author: davet9713

A Country Christmas 14 Songs with a Country Feel This years album, A Country Christmas, is finally available after some initial trials and tribulations. I had published this album in October, with a November 28th release date, to make sure it would get into the Apple and Spotify catalogs in time for Christmas. Sadly, when […]

Well, September is knocking on the door, so it’s time for a new song for fall. I was driving down the road from the lake into town and noticed a couple of the trees had already started turning small amounts of their leaves to gold and rust-red colours. Outside my side window in my living […]

I’ve got a friend who is married with two children, bought a new house not that long ago with a pool for the family to enjoy, and seemed to be on the road to family bliss. The he got whalloped with a huge project at work and started having to work from the very early […]

So, it’s been a challenging winter and spring season. This has been one of the worst winters on record here for extreme snowfall amounts, and living on a rural private road as I do makes getting around in bad weather a challenge. For those who listened to 8 Hours in the E.R. you’ll know that […]

I’m one of the many people who follow the webcam of Friends of Big Bear Valley. FOBBV has two live cameras that watch a mated pair of American Bald Eagles named Jackie and Shadow. For the last two seasons, Jackie and Shadow have had a hard time and the eggs that Jackie laid each year […]

I realized that a lot of the songs that I’ve been creating are seasonally or event themed (i.e. Fall, Winter, Thanksgiving, Valentines, etc…) which severely limits the playability of these song year round. So, I got to thinking about making a more generic country song. Someone once told me that the quintessential Country and Western […]

There was just enough time before Valentine’s Day 2025 to get one more song completed and mastered. Valentine Blues is about a country fella who has his heart broken when his girl runs off to the big city with a rich guy. The song hasn’t hit the streaming sites yet (Apple Music, Spotify, etc…) but […]

I’ve started a project to remaster a bunch of older songs and update the distributed audio files. I’m also taking the opportunity to leverage Capify to create lyric videos for YouTube for the remastered songs. I will be updating this blog post as new songs get remastered and posted, but here is the initial list […]

My 2025 song for Valentine’s Day is a little country shuffle tune called Country Valentine. Light and cheery, this song is perfect for a cuddle in front of the fire, particularly given the crazy cold weather we’ve been experiencing so far this year. The song is online and streaming on Apple Music and Spotify, and […]

A little tune, January’s Bitter Chill, is now online on the major streaming services to accompany the Polar Vortex that’s brought ridiculously cold weather this month. This song was written when it was -27 degrees C (-17 degrees F) and you couldn’t go outside with any skin exposed for any length of time. While struggling […]