BABY COME BACK TO ME 66

Is the first song that I’ve written and recorded.

In 1966 we lived across the Bayou Rapides from

The First Bethlehem Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana.

Every Sunday evening, I heard their Gospel singing. 

I felt their pain, for I too felt loss. 

Not so much the loss love due to a failed relationship, 

Rather “Baby” is a metaphor for the loss of innocence, 

My loss of innocence was due to household drama.

Having worked in the ditches on road construction, 

I’ve heard the crunching of gravel and I’ve felt the chains

Not so much the chains of physical imprisonment. 

I felt the chains of my character defects that held me back.

The blues, like “Baby Come Back to Me 66”, 

evolved from the work songs sung to help pass the time 

and to help heal the loss of what could have been.

WOE IS ME

“Woe is Me” was written during the week of Oct. 21-27, 2018.

It was the one year anniversary of Phil Thomas Katt, PTK

Swamp Mix Album engineer and recorder, Mother’s Death.

We attended our keyboardist Joe “Fingas” Fuller’s brother 

Sean Fuller’s Funeral. Oct 23, 2018. 

It’s full moon Saturday Oct 27, 2018, when a shooter enters

The Tree of Life, Synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA

During their Saturday morning Shabbat service and kills 8 worshipers. 

Now, the carnage has hit home Friday December 6, 2019, 

as a shooter kills three students at Naval Air Station 

here in Pensacola, Florida. 

     “Woe is Me” is a mournful chant, a woeful dirge…

Expressing the loss of innocence of what was. 

It also expresses the loss of life,

while expressing the loss of what could have been.