Southern Sky Music

It was Barry Gibb, who sang ‘It’s only words, and words are all I have…..” And that was all I had, stacks of them! So I bought a guitar and set about rectifying the imbalance. Fast forward 5 years when I put Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland on my turntable, it not only changed my musical life it changed my weapon of choice to a Stratocaster copy. Then I went about finding like-minded musicians and bands were formed and broken. Names like Total Disregard then Firemen, playing the local Melbourne pub scene, giving my own songs an audience for the first time. The dream ended quite abruptly with marriage, children and the great Australian Mortgage but the seed was truly sown. Songs kept coming and it wasn’t until I again had space and time in my life that I started my musical career over, this time with an acoustic guitar and a love and appreciation of folk and country songs.

Five independent Cds, Heart and Mind in 2012 and ….a Little Faith in 2017, Night Sky Burning in 2019 and This Life in 2021 and Dry Creek Road in 2022 and a swag of songs in-between brings me to the present. I bury myself in my home studio, which is now into its 4^th incarnation. Like many musicians I constantly straddle the many necessary rungs on the ladder to musical supremacy. Song writer, arranger, guitarist, bass player, percussionist, vocalist, backup vocalist, keyboard player, and the ever-evolving roles of producer, engineer, musical director and mastering engineer…..

After all this, I still get my greatest enjoyment, just sitting on the couch, strumming my guitar warbling out my latest number one! I think it was Paul Kelly in his documentary, “Stories of Me’’ who answered the question of where to now, by raising his index finger and saying: ‘’just one more, one more song…..’’ and that is how it is for me…

 

I have setup Southern Sky Music to introduce my songs as both a singer/performer and also for music publishing.

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