Flowers and Rockets is more personal and autobiographical
than my previous album, Wild in the Backyard.
The songs culminated during a separation, divorce,
the awakening of a new love, and birth of my second child,
in addition to the ups and downs of life in the music business.
What a journey!

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More about the making of "Flowers and Rockets"
Songs and Lyrics from "Flowers and Rockets"

I did not know I was making Live At The Bluebird.
For the past several years, Amy Kurland has been recording
and collecting 2-track DAT tapes of our performances
at The Bluebird Café.
So you'll hear a lot of microphone pops, miscues, forgotten lyrics,
wrong chords, etc. But you'll also hear what a night at The Bluebird
is really like. Unrehearsed jams, laughs, stories, surprises and
some of what I remember as magical moments…
but then, that's a nightly occurrence at The Bluebird Café.
More about the making of "Live at the Bluebird"
Songs and Lyrics from "Live at the Bluebird"

Wild In The Backyard is my first. So I'll always love it for that.
It's hard for me to listen to it now.
I hadn't lived with the songs very long at the time we recorded it.
I feel like I do them better now.
Ray Kennedy and I had some very dry smokin' mixes,
but the label made us go back and add reverb and such.
Still, overall we were pretty much left to our own devices,
something virtually unheard of now in the Nashville recording industry.
More about the Making of "Wild in the Backyard"
Songs and Lyrics from "Wild in the Backyard"

Listen What the Katmandu
and Distance Over Time
Steve Nelson
By way of Los Angeles from New York, Steve Nelson came to Nashville
in the early 90's. He'd been writing songs for the marketplace
a long time including televison and movies to covers by everyone from
Barbara Streisand, Paul Anka, Samantha Sang and Dusty Springfield.
My old buddy Dona Spangler introduced us not long after
he'd moved to Nashville. We started writing songs together and
hit it off right away.
Every once in a while he'd share a song or two he'd written
from a more personal perspective. That's when my ears started to perk up.
I was always impressed with his professional co-writing abilites
but I had no idea about the artist within the man.
Come to find out that's who he was all the time, he just needed
to get reaquainted with it. I suggested that he get out and gig
more often and think about making an album.
I also suggested the perfect producer for him...me!
His introspective, socially & politically aware songs with his
Paul Simonesque melodies and gentle voice were right down my alley.
All his years of experience scoring for TV and Film made him a
knowlegdable and enjoyable artist to produce and I learned a whole lot
in the process. (and we both learned pro-tools recording together
without killing each other!) His old friend John Mills engineered for us.
John has also engineered for Ike & Tina Turner, George Martin, Poco
and many other greats.... so I knew we were in good hands.
So check this guy out. I think you'll dig him.
P.S. a little trivia for you:
Steve wrote the theme song for the Saturday morning
Winnie-The-Pooh Series!....and we recorded it on
Listen What The Katmandu.

-Don Henry

The Return of Buddy Cruel
Jim Reilley
(co-produced with Jim Reilley)