Heaven On Earth was recorded in two six hour sessions in the year of 1990. It wasn't released in any form until 1993.

Recorded at Sierra West Music AKA(Canyon Recording) in Canyon California with long time collaborator, Neil J. Young (a different Neil Young), I recall the sessions as being some of the most enjoyable recording times of my life.

The songs were all new. The circumstances that prompted recording included a crumbling relationship ( my first multi year relationship ), while we were working on this recording I lost my job, my car was impounded ( again ) and I had gotten myself into more than one drunk tank...in fact it was as if I was taking the drunk tank tour of the San Francisco Bay Area.

This tape is guitar and vocal. It has sparse overdubs where I play lead guitar or add a vocal track. The recording is very clear and the songs are showcased in a simple, direct manor.

This is a tape I recommend for people who suffer. When you live check to check ... you want to leave but can't figure out how... Everything reminds you of something you once shared with someone who has since left. You look around and see the world being used up and wonder why you don't do something about it. But what can you do? So you order a pizza and recycle the box. People in this condition tend to tell me this is one of their favorite tapes.

I must also add that Mickey Newbury (my favorite songwriter) had a great influence on the style of some of these songs. I had just met him at the Sweetwater nightclub in Mill Valley, CA. Don Negri gave me a tape of the show which enabled me to study Newbury's unique honesty. These songs came out prophetic - but only for me. Many of these things happened to me after I wrote about them!

This why it took three years for me to put this tape out. I moved, and had to start over. I must have lived in seven or eight places in one year. I kept trying to leave but couldn't. Also, sometimes you realize how much you sacrifice for your music (or any art) and it can bring you to think that maybe you are crazy...I wasn't about to write any more songs about bad things happening because they were coming true for me. It was weird. I was in a good relationship when I wrote Alone in Love and six months later I was left with a song to sing about what had become reality; only, it was only meant to be a song and I never thought it would be part of my real life. Now the whole song is true... even the part about the judge.

So here's Heaven On Earth - a grounded look at
life as it sometimes follows art.