My first writing effort was "Mom Said Son", a collaboration with lyric writer Robbie Smith (www.myspace.com/lyricsbyrobbie).
"Hello Nashville" was the first song I wrote entirely on my own.
"I Love Those Mountains" was another collaboration with Robbie Smith.
This was followed by three more original songs: "Sitting on the Front Porch", "My Tennessee Home" and "Grandma, We Love You".

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I'm told that I have been singing since I learned to talk, but my first public performance was not singing. At the age of 10 I played a bamboo pipe (similar to a recorder) in a school pipe band.
My first public singing performance was in a school choir during a concert at the age of about 14.
I dabbled with the piano as a child, but never had lessons - I couldn't manage to get both hands to work independently! I never learned to sight read music, but I have always had the ability to pick out tunes by ear.
I got my first guitar when I was 16, and started learning a few chords. At 17 I was singing in a pub in Woolwich, S.E. London, accompanied by the resident pianist.
I became interested in folk music when folk clubs started opening up in the late 1960s and, at the age of 18, I became a resident singer in the Foc'sle Folk Club in Dover.
I gradually moved from folk to Country, although I have always had very wide tastes in music, and began playing regularly, once a week, in local pubs. For a while in the early 1970s I was lead singer of a C&W trio called The Reapers, performing at pubs, hotels and clubs around East Kent.
A couple of years ago I branched out into keyboard playing and began recording the music I have been singing for over 40 years.
I recently started writing, both individually and with a co-writer in Florida, and the songs on my profile player are some of the results of my individual efforts.
"Hello, Nashville!" tells the story of a not-very-good songwriter who is desperate to get his songs published. It is a spoof on the "my wife left me, my dog died" stereotypes applied to country music by people who are not into the genre.
"Sitting on the Front Porch" is sort-of auto-biographical and was written just before embarking on a 14-state tour of the mid-west, where I made a guest appearance at a bar in Georgetown, Texas.
"My Tennessee Home" is about a wannbe cowboy who leaves his home and family to go west looking for work, but falls on hard times and gets into bad company.
"Grandma, We Love You" was written as a tribute to a wonderful lady in Oregon who loved to go to the casino to play the slot machines. Sadly, she passed away at the age of 92 - this song was recorded and released on what would have been her 93rd birthday.