Campfire Chronicles episodes:

• January 29, 2015Campfire 35: One Love and Two Lives

  At a concert in Seattle on March 22, 1997 every singing group I had ever been

  a part of beginning with one in high school appeared on stage together. A

  week later in a concert in Spokane I was the opening act as well as one of

  The Brothers Four. Looking back those two events felt like one concert with

  a week long intermission. It has been something to remember them and write

  about them and to realize again how important they were.

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• November 22, 2014Campfire 34: Moment of Truth

  In September of 1995 McCoy and I celebrated 30 years of friendship. For his

  birthday that month I gave him a songbook containing 52 original songs that

  we had sung through the years. At the time I saw that book and those songs

  as a culmination. Little did I know that our journey together was only beginning.

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• October 14, 2014Campfire 33: Let Love Go Forward

  1995 was a year of writing songs for friends and family as well as for sale.

  I wrote songs for Pat’s and my wedding, Lindsey’s graduation,

  and for a concert celebrating 30 years of music and friendship with Mike

  McCoy. Of all the songs I wrote that year Let Love Go Forward, a song written

  for my wedding, is likely the most significant. It ends most campfire concerts.

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• August 26, 2014Campfire 32: On A New Day

  Beginning in March of 1994 there were a dozen moments or events that continued

  to remind me how close life is to death and how near love is to loss. While

  those experiences gave me pause and stopped me in my tracks they did not

  stop me from embracing life and celebrating love.

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• July 16, 2014Campfire 31: With Me Wherever I Go

  My cousin Jane died twenty years ago a few months before her 41st birthday.

  This Campfire describes the time from her diagnosis-November of 1992-until

  her death in March of 1994. As I re-remembered that time there was much I

  had forgotten while some of it remained as clear and close as yesterday.

  Making that time a part of One of Those Times in a Life gives it added perspective.

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• April 12, 2014Campfire 30: You Are the One

  The early 90’s brought significant changes in my life and career.

  I became an instant family man. The Brothers Four committed to performing

  more including frequent tours of Japan and regular tours around the US. It

  also was a time when I worked as a freelance verse writer for American Greetings

  as well as continuing my quest to “make it” as a songwriter.

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• February 19, 2014Campfire 29: What A Wonderful World

  As I began to write about The Brothers Four’s connection to Japan

  and the Japanese people it all became more amazing. I realize that I have

  gone to Japan to perform for 45 years and the group has been going for more

  than 52 years. It is a connection that defies explanation and continues to

  fill me with gratitude. We will be returning again in May and June doing

  20 shows and releasing a new album.

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• January 06, 2014Campfire 28: Heart of the Heartland

  One of Those Times in a Life is a continuing journey of Gratitude and Grace

  as well as Memory and Discovery. It had been years since I thought about

  and remembered a solo concert I did in the fall of 1987. It was only in remembering

  it all those years later that it became clear how important it was to everything

  that followed.

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• November 04, 2013Campfire 27: Some Brothers and a Mother

  Not long ago I was talking with a friend and told her that One of Those Times

  in a Life was sort of a Thank you and I’m sorry Tour. That is a

  humorous way of saying that it is a Journey of Gratitude and Grace. It has

  been a chance to get in touch with people some of whom I haven’t

  talked with in years and to thank them for being in or having been in my

  life. Where it was appropriate the reconnecting also gave or gives me a chance

  to apologize for something I did or that happened.Yes, I am grateful for

  a chance to express both regret and gratitude to those who have joined me

  in this journey. 

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• October 08, 2013Campfire 26: Not Through Loving Yet

  There have been a few times in a lifetime where I have suffered a crisis of

  faith. The summer of 1983 was one such time. In the year that followed I

  found out that it was still worth loving even when it meant losing…an

  important lesson. I continue to be grateful to those who were there when

  I needed them most.

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