The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain.
My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album; I loved her.
I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.
This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.
One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.