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Song Anthology
When, where, and why were they written?
Let Kenny share with you some of the memories and circumstances surrounding the creation of his songs.






"My songs are inspired by reality, and write themselves."

  • You're All I Need     February 1993
    While watching a rerun of the Ed Sullivan Show, and feeling a little lonely as I recall, the idea came to me to write a song. I had never planned to be a song writer, nor had such an idea ever shown itself before. The idea and the song just came and I responded with pen, paper, and guitar immediately. I believe this song wrote itself in a matter of 20 to 30 minutes (as most do actually). Obviously a simple song musically and lyrically, but it was a start. You will hear a repetitive 1-6-4-5 chord progression, familiar to the ears of those who listen to the "Oldies" radio stations (I always think of that song "The Bristol Stomp" when I play these chords). I guess it was that Ed Sullivan influence that night. So think about this; in 1993, decades after his death, the legacy of Ed Sullivan indirectly launched my songwriting and music career. Too bad I can't appear on his show!         Top
  • When Fantasy is Real     September 1993
    My first song was about a would be love. This song was about a real one. I fell head over heels for a woman, and a quick string of love songs followed.         Top

  • What's This Crazy Feeling     September 1993
    More mushy love language in this song expressing my real feelings at the time. Although the love is gone (as you will soon see ), these first songs still hold those feelings for me through the music.

  • Thirty Years to Make a Woman     October 1993
    This song was written for my girl friend's thirtieth birthday. As is typical of me, I wanted to do something somewhat untraditional. In fact, I went to a recording studio for the first time to record this song in a demo version. Wrote it in a day or two and recorded it that evening. This remains one of my favorite songs I have ever written and recorded (I liked the demo version as much). You will also hear my love for nature in this and many of my songs.         Top

  • I Love You     November 1993
    I originally wrote the lyrics of this song to the melody of the Beatles "I'm So Tired" (off the White Album). But to avoid plagiarizing the most successful songwriters of all time, and to make the song fully my own, the current melody was adapted. This song originated as a pure and literal expression of love (hence the literal title). However, I have always thought this song was more of a bad poem, and I cannot remember ever playing it after writing it. But it was to be added to the CD as a duet with a woman. Ironically though, this was one of the few songs that had a flawless (keeper) first studio take with me singing alone, and for that reason, we dropped the duet idea for the CD. One day, this song will be sung in duet form with real intent and communication.         Top

  • I Woke Up In Love     December 1993
    Another simple love song that I wrote a long while back but rarely if ever play. Yet, although the shortest song I have recorded to date, this turned out to be one of my favorites. I especially like the key change.         Top

  • Attraction for the Past      November 1994
    An expression of my deep sense of nostalgia for my past life, history, and old friendships, this song was my first deliberate effort to begin writing about things other than love. I had recalled that Bob Dylan, whom I (and many) consider one of the best song writers of our time, told the Beatles in 1965 that their songs were good but they "weren't saying anything"; from that point on, the Beatles' songs shifted from "silly love songs" (as Paul McCartney would later call them in a song) to meaningful expressions of life. So did mine from this date. Note also the long interval elapsing before this song was written and the previous one. Long songless intervals have been rare thankfully, but have occurred at various times for different reasons. I like this song and what it says.         Top

  • Go to the Light      May 1995
    Note the date that this song was written, recall that the bombing of the Government building in Oklahoma City was in April 1995, and you have the origin of the theme of this song. Originally intended to aid the grief-stricken families who lost loved ones in that tragedy, the song evolved more into how we all must deal with our own mortality, especially those facing what otherwise may be imminent transcendence, say from a fatal illness like cancer. (The "Go To The Light" theme and the long ending of the song speaks to the concept of transcendence of our spirit to the "beyond", the "eternal", the "after life", or whatever it may be called, rather than the death to dust idea.) In fact, I have sent the lyrics of this song to several people in this situation from cancer with a favorable influence on their attitude. It seems to serve family members of these people in the same regard. This song is one of many examples of how I hope my songs may serve the life and health needs of those that may hear them.         Top

  • An Affair of Nature      December 1995
    First, I have already said that I do indeed have a love affair with nature, and that alone might explain this song. But after being restricted from travelling (which for me is always into the heart of mother nature) for several years after an injury, and being reminded by a very close Cherokee Indian friend of our need to "roost" in nature, this song was born, reflecting on my favorite places to travel, especially the western U.S. To me (and many spiritual seekers before me), the best way to find G-d is in nature. Listen to this song, then get in your travel vehicle, and go!         Top

  • Is This Burnin' Love (or Love Burnin')     March 1996
    Some love comes and stays forever. Other love, at the hands and heart of our limited selves, comes, metamorphasizes, and goes. This song began a string of songs serving as a dumping ground for the hurt I experienced at the hands and broken heart of "love burnin'".         Top

  • Playin' the Longshot      September 1996
    This song is truly one of my favorite recordings on the CD's for which I credit my co-producer and the band for capturing that early 1970's country-rock sound with which I most identify and like. This song was written during an early morning walk in 1996. No man can reveal all, and the line "I wonder if you know what I mean" is intended to be a fill in the blank. So I leave the mystery in this one. While I wonder if you know what I mean, you, too, have your own "Longshot" so go for it!         Top

  • The Birthday Song     June 1997
    Originally written for my daughter with the words specifically about her by name, I wanted to find a way to share this song with others. Hence, The Birthday Song came to be. This song is requested by more adults and kids than any other song. It is especially fun at the birthday parties of children of all ages! Sing it yourselves, and sing it "all day long"!         Top

  • Upscale Woman Blues      September 1997
    My love for the blues music, and what many traditional blues songs stand for ("She did me wrong") found its way into this song. Blues music serves a purpose, and historically I imagine this is how it was born: you can't beat 'em, you can't fight 'em, you can't join 'em, so sing sad about 'em!         Top

  • Right To Be Free     November 1997
    Another song created out of my desire to "say something", this song says it best in the last line: "Live and Let Live". In fact, at one time that was its title. We all have a right to be free, and we should seek freedom daily. We must however seek and find that freedom through love, wisdom, and peace, not hate, ignorance, and war.         Top

  • The Borderline     December 1997
    This song and time really reflects the depth of my pain from heartache. In retrospect, I have learned that feeling like "a victim" is an extremely unhealthy state of body and mind. But in the middle of unwanted turmoil involving another person, it is often a natural starting place for our feelings. The challenge is to grow, change, and overcome. But frankly, I am glad for the time it existed for me, because it gave birth to several wonderful songs, including this one. Please note that in virtually all such songs reflecting pain and perhaps victimization (including "Right to be Free" above), there is a ray of hope for change and improved circumstance offered at the end. We must take our minds and hearts to the positive when we are engulfed by negative circumstances, as we all will be from time to time.         Top

  • Just a White T-Shirt      October 1998
    Written while driving down the highway on a road trip to hike the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee (which you will hear in the lyrics), I consider this one of my "Signature Songs". In fact, it is this song that lent the cover idea for the "Can't Fool" CD. I had to learn the hard way many times over, but indeed I learned "I've just got to be me" as the song says. This song likely could not have been written without spending too many years in Dallas, Texas. And as for that black tie thing? You will not catch me in a Tuxedo any time soon!         Top

  • Lookin' for a Woman     December 1998
    Well, this is sort of a funny one. I was driving down the road, saw a young girl sporting a crew cut, and the song wrote itself within a few hours. Now I have nothing against others with different values and tastes, I just know what I like, and as far as woman are concerned, what I do not like. Obviously, being "out here for a while" has aided in this area. I wish all areas of life were as clear, although the fog is lifting thankfully.         Top

  • Payin' Heavy Tuition     March 1999
    I believe I have heard this referred to by others as a graduate degree from the school of "Hard Knocks". This is a blues song about learning the hard way. Still not in the forgiving mentality or spirit at this time. That's okay though; if everyone forgave quickly and totally, there would be no blues music.         Top

  • Love Come Over Me      April 1999
    Now I am getting ready to forgive; or at least for the hate to go away. Luckily in the end, love always triumphs over hate. And forgiveness soon follows. This is my prayer in this song.         Top

  • Red, Hot and Blue      December 1999
    Like all my songs, this one describes just what happened. A rare circumstance occurred though; I wrote this song waking up from deep sleep at about 4:00 AM the night after seeing "G-d's gift to womanhood". The title of the song, as the lyrics indicate, describe the emotional hangover that followed this short lived "marvelous" experience.         Top

  • The Bird in the Hand      August 2000
    This song is written about a long past girlfriend who did everything right except she had bad timing. At the time we dated, all I wanted to do was be out there, and available. She was truly worthy of being loved, respected, and kept but somehow she managed to be that bird in the hand that we all sometimes ignore for the two in the bush. Maybe I will see her again someday ("What I would give for a chance to relive...")? This is one of my favorite songs musically on the CD's.         Top

  • What's It All About     February 2001
    Another one of my favorite songs, this time lyrically because of its important message for right life and right attitude. This seems to be a favorite among my father's generation. But we are never really too young to consider these issues. I am not sure how such a significant song got written driving the interstate between Dallas and Houston, but it did. So "What's it all about?" Listen and live this song!         Top

  • Sing A Happy Tune      August 2001
    This song was written on a Colorado highway like so many of my songs. I drive for a while, sometimes a few days. Then it hits me that I am ready to write a song, and one gets written usually. This song was written to an existing melody I had on what I call my melody tape. If ever a song melody comes into my head, I put it down on tape for future use. Well, on the tape I happened to choose lots of "Doo's" to record the melody. The way it was on the tape made me smile and laugh so much everytime the chorus played, it begged to be left in, and led the song to be about turning frustration into happiness. I have used this song a few times this way. I hope it works for you! This song is proof that you cannot be mad and sing at the same time. Go ahead, try it? Can't do it can you? "So if your down and feelin' blue… Don't get mad just remember to, Sing a happy tune...Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.         Top

  • Navajo Blackhorse      September 2001
    Another one of my favorites musically, and because of its origin. This was written in the middle of Navajo country in Arizona. The story goes as follows. I stopped in Northern Arizona to rest and check out a view. There happened to be a few Navajo woman jewelry crafters on hand. One was nice enough to entertain some of my questions regarding the Navajo way of life and spirituality. She told me alot about her life over a 30 minute period. She was very friendly and nice, and actually gave me a small but meaningful gift as I left (a small ear of red corn which serves a spiritual purpose in some Navajo ceremonies). As I approached my truck, I felt like I too should give her a gift in return but all I had would have been an apple and that just did not seem adequate. So I just left, on my way to the North rim of the Grand Canyon, taking the long forest dirt road, about a 60 minute drive. It was a very boring drive because it is nothing but dirt for over an hour before finally you reach the canyon rim (well worth it but boring nevertheless). On the way back the next day after a backpacking hike, it occurred to me that writing a song would be both a great way to pass the otherwise boring driving time, and a wonderful gift for my new Navajo acquaintance. By the time I hit pavement, the song was finished! I will present it to her in person soon. I only wish I could have included a real Navajo prayer in the song as I had wanted.         Top

  • You Can't Fool All The People All The Time      December 2001
    This song amazingly wrote itself over an hour or so between the recording sessions for these CD's. So instead of 12 songs on each CD, one has 13. And think, it became the title track too! A miracle this was, and a wonderful tribute to this nearly 150 year old quote from a very famous U.S. statesman . Do you know who it was and why he said it?         Top

  • Grey Skies Make Me Cloudy      March 2002
    There go those gray skies givin' me the blues again. I assure you winter skies in Dallas are very gray, and losing your woman only makes them grayer.         Top

  • Thought I’d Seen It All      April 2002
    What a wonderful way to celebrate this upper Midwest "cast of characters".         Top

  • An Axe Man for the Age      April 2002
    My memorial tribute to one of my "guitar heroes" and brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan. We first met in Missouri, and again in Texas, many times, and in many ways. "Play on Stevie, we love you man." Written in Illinois, while camping of course.         Top

  • On the Trail of a Spirit      May 2002
    About the time God began performing easily observable miracles for me, this song was written on "The Loneliest Road" crossing Nevada into Utah. It was heaven indeed.         Top

  • Homeless      August 2002
    Choosing temporary homelessness to execute my life mission did seem to add a spark to my life, and furthered my understanding of how much of life really is a "state of mind". I am grateful to the Southwest Texas man responsible for this song. Thank you sir!         Top

  • Whatta You Supposed to Be      September 2002
    I ound out that when travelling, sometimes any sign of being an outsider, is all it takes to "draw attention". I am always grateful for the troublemakers in my life… they help my song writing anthology! The song tells you where this happened; written right there.         Top

  • For Want of Higher Ground      September 2002
    Another song born out of being stranded, this time in an impassable muddy forest in a Colorado rain. I really did find "Higher Ground" that weekend. Took 2 days to be able to leave. God seemingly had a plan for me.         Top

  • Wipe Those Tears Away      October 2002
    The first of a long stream of songs that would come to me in dreams. Leaving Texas "to raise universal good" shortly before, somewhere within my soul, that "my love would never fade away" had to be expressed. Written while stranded on a closed road washed out by a summer monsoon in Southeast Arizona.         Top

  • Don’t Feel Bad For Me      October 2002
    When you redirect your life, sometimes people close to you may not understand, and think you may have turned for the worse. This song assures them, it is quite the contrary. Written in Northern California travelling up the coast.         Top

  • If I Was a Cow      October 2002
    Too much highway, seeing too many cows doing too many cow things led to this song. Written somewhere on the West Coast but I think I still smelled those feedlots in Texas.         Top

  • L’Dor V’Dor (From Generation to Generation)     October 2002
    An expression of love to my parents and daughter, after taking about 5 years to claim its identity, this song wrote itself in 30 minutes on a walk in a Northwest Oregon forest. Environment is everything!         Top

  • Happened One Night      November 2002
    Written in one of my Southeast Arizona hideaways on a special birthday, expressing my gratitude for what came before, and for what is "on the horizon". So what does this have to do with Mexico?         Top

  • I Am That I Am      January 2003
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  • Get On a Mission of Nutrition      January 2003
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  • A Trip Down Intestinal Lane      January 2003
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  • I Want What I Want When I Want It      February 2003
    I wrote this song in another one of my Arizona hideaways to add some counter-content to my songs of solution. What better way, than to write about the problem.         Top

  • Just So You Know (Just Say No)      February 2003
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  • Stay Straight      February 2003


  • For Want of Higher Ground (Reprise)      March 2003
    Southern Arizona (like Northern Arizona would be soon after) has been very good for my song writing. Celebrate - we are "Gone for Want of Higher Ground".         Top

  • Start Your Life Again      April 2003
    Written while looking at a barren rocky desert terrain in southern Arizona. I thought, "what a bunch of nothingness", and soon came this song (and its hook line, "Something out of nothing's really something after all").         Top

  • Against the Rain      August 2003
    Another song idea that came from a dream, and wrote itself walking in a forest, this time on a beautiful mountain in Southern Oregon. We must "push on against the rain" to find the sun!         Top

  • If It Feels Bad, Don’t Do It      September 2003
    I honestly cannot remember how this song came to me, but it is cute and true. Written on the road in Mojave, CA (yep, that is in the Mojave Desert alright!).         Top

  • Location for Vocation      November 2003
    "Still rolling down this road today", but thinking it is coming to an end soon. Written while camping outside Orlando Florida. (I bet you didn't know you could camp outside Orlando Florida.)         Top

  • Watcha Gonna Do Now      December 2003
    Sadly, and unexpectedly, my Co-Producer lost his beloved brother during the time we were recording this CD. The night after his funeral, I found myself at a cemetery in Cleburne, Texas writing this song, dedicated to the memory of Kirk Osborn, beloved brother, son, husband, and father.         Top

  • Cans-Is      December 2003
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  • How Could I Let You Love Me      January 2004
    After a revelation about love came to me walking in a forest in South Carolina, this wonderful song wrote itself. It takes one to know one, and it takes loving ourselves to love another.         Top

  • Don’t Dam My Love      February 2004
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  • She Could See The Halo of an Angel      February 2004
    As thoughts of angels and miracles surrounded me, so did this song get written in Florida somewhere. There was once this beautiful, gentle woman whom I met in Kansas City long ago who could see halos of angels. I hope to meet her again someday to tell her that I now understand.         Top

  • Rainy Day Natchez Blues      February 2004
    Anyone that knows me knows how much I need sun, and how rain and clouds give me the Blues. 28 inches of rain in one month in the Southeast, and I saw and felt every inch! Guess where this was written?         Top

  • Lookin’ for a Woman #2      March 2004
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  • What’s the Matter With Me      May 2004
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  • Chokin’ on Reality      May 2004
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  • You Like Me and I Like You      June 2004
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  • Lost and Found      June 2004
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  • Is It So Hard To Understand      June 2004
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  • Secret Hot Desire      June 2004
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  • 40 Days and 40 Nights      August 2004
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  • I’m Your Produce Man      September 2004
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  • Let Me Be      September 2004
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  • I Ain’t Country (I’m Just Rural)      September 2004
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  • You Gotta Exercise      October 2004
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  • Yesterday’s Dream      October 2004
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  • Williams, Arizona      October 2004
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  • All I Need Is You      October 2004
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  • Be My Fantasy Girl      October 2004
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  • Mr. Bones      October 2004
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  • Rock on Lord      November 2004
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  • Time Keeps Marching On      November 2004
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  • The Circle of Life      January 2005
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  • Bring Me in From the Cold      February 2005
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  • Let Me Be Your Memory      May 2005
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  • To Better Do Your Will      August 2005
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  • Have You Ever...?      August 2005
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  • I Wanna Know, I Wanna See      September 2005
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  • Roam Wildhorse Roam      September 2005
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  • It’s All About Love      October 2005
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  • This is My Song      January 2006
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  • What Kinda Love Do You Need From Me Tonight      February 2006
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  • All is One      April 2006
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  • I Wanna Be Your Lovin Man      May 2006
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