Black Mt. Rag

Big Sandy River

Bile Them Cabbage Down

Bill Cheatum

Boatman’s Dance

Cherokee Shuffle

Clinch Mt Backstep

Cotton Eye Joe

Crazy Creek

Devil’s Dream

Dusty Miller

Fire on the Mountain

Gold Rush

Hangman’s Reel

Hell Amongst the Yearlings

June Apple

Maiden’s Prayer

Old Joe Clark

Red Haired Boy

Salt Creek

Shortnin’ Bread

Sugar Foot Rag

Dead March

Tennessee Waltz
Modal

Glory in the Meetin’ House

June Apple

Cluck Old Hen

Shady Grove

D

Angelina the Baker

Arkansas Traveler

Ashokan Farwell

Beaumont Rag

Cuckoo’s Nest

Fisher’s Hornpipe

Flop Eared Mule

Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss

Forked Deer

Hop the Fence

Julie Ann Johnson

Liberty

Lord’s Prayer

Midnight on the Water

Mississippi Sawer

Over the Waterfall

Ragtime Annie

Raleigh

Soldier’s Joy

Spotted Pony

St. Anne’s Reel

Sugar Hill

Washington’s March

Whiskey Before…

C

Back Up and Push

Billy in the Lowground

Careless Love

Texas Gales

G

Big Mon

Big Sciota

Blackberry Blossom

Bridal Jig

Cripple Creek

Fireball Mail

Girl I Left Behind

Golden Slippers

Grandfather Clock

Katy Hill

Leather Britches

Nail That Catfish to the Tree

Over the Waves

Red Wing

Renaissance Dance

Sail Away Ladies

Sally Ann

Westphalia Waltz

Dm

Lonesome Moonlight Waltz

Em

Swallowtail Jig

Bm

Wayfaring Stranger

Old Time and Bluegrass tools

Down in the Dust

I wrote this after an unfortunate incident on some ice right around Ash Wednesday.

Inventory

Ah the good old moral inventory.  There’s no way around it on the pathway to peace.  (mixed mono)

And

“And” is a very important theological word.   There is no getting around tension and paradox.

Busier Than God

God rested on the 7th Day.   Why do you suppose we are commanded to rest?

Lord Teach Us to Pray

This was written for a Lent series focused on prayer

Incarnation

“Incarnation” is a proclamation of the ultimately inescapable presence of the Holy One.  It is a mysterious presence, to be sure, deeply hidden, yet “ever intimate” and perfectly particular.  I see faith as a kind of blessed naiveté.  The presence of the incarnate Word is utterly invisible to the “never naïve”.  The enormous grace and love communicated in the mass is true and real if it is believed or not.  But in the believing, to which we are invited, comes joy and peace.

Late Have I Loved You

“Late have I loved you, oh Beauty so old yet so new”  – the words  St. Augustine.  Every time when what happens in worship happens,  I find myself wondering why I keep forgetting so that I have to be reminded again and again.  We are called again and again because our sinful nature is basically forgetful.

The Light of Love

An Epiphany song

2001

This was my first recording project back in 2001.  Some of these songs go all the way back to when I was a teenager in the ’70s!  I got my son Joel to hit the drums (it’s hard to record a good drum sound in the living room)   My son Josh played bass a few tracks.  It was exciting to start to learn how to record my songs on a computer.

Evidence of the Day

Invocation

You Really Care for Me

Good Gifts

Here Beside the River

Human

Kite Parable

Satisfied

To Whom Shall We Go

Sacred Space

I Will Not Leave You

Tender Kiss

2003

Jesus said ” the last will be first and the first will be last.”  And, “Whoever wants to become great among you must be you r servant.”  And, ” If you try to save your life you will lose it but if you give it away for me, you will surely find it.”  He said those kinds of things a lot.

There is no victory without surrender to God There is no real living without first dieing.  The calculus of the mysterious reign of God seems strange.  How the the way up be down?  It is so because God, who is pure love, makes it so.

Falling – (in love) is what we are here for.  I am grateful for brothers and sisters who help me learn to fall with some measure of grace.  I am grateful to God for patience with all of us as we come to terms (as we all must) with the fact that we are dust and to dust we will return.  “Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.”

Crisis

White Flag

OUr First Lessons

Flora’s Proclamation

Falling Down

The Love in Your Eyes

Good Life

Down

Emmanuel

Up And Down

Somebody Cares

Missing the Point

Turning and Returning

Five Gifts for the Journey

2004

This CD presents several instrumental arrangements of some of my favorite hymn tunes along with several of my compositions.  The title and the title song were inspired by a family trip to the Atlantic coast in North Carolina.  A couple of years before I had been to the other end of the New River (actually, it’s a very old river) in West Virginia.  Our beach house was at the place where the New River finds its home in the sea.  The prelude to the song Ocean of Love is a musical picture of a growing river.   As you round the last bend there is a breathtaking encounter  with the ocean.

Thanks to God who is the Ocean of Love in whom we live and move and have our being.

Slane

Bright Path

Noel Nouvelet

Ocean of Love

Beech Spring

Foundation

Predictable Diety

Holy, Holy, Holy

To Whom Shall We Go?

Picardy

Holy Time, Holy Space

That’s Good!

My Daughter-in-law’s blog where I get updates on my grandchildren http://www.dandeelionsoup.blogspot.com/

My church’s website  http://hope-jordan.org/

Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association
http://www.minnesotabluegrass.org/

Demo of my favorite pedal  (I’ve got one for sale $300) http://www.gazotube.com/LhNC1AMzH0I.html

Duhks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCqDXocucU

2005

I am ever more astonished at the love that is in, with and under all things.  I am convinced that God’s grace is deeper than any of us could ever imagine.  My awareness of that continues to deepen as I grow older.

I n the songs recorded on this CD you will mostly hear the stammering of a man in love.  In the magnificent embrace of my creator and savior I am smitten.  God is pure deep love.  I can’t get over it!

I hope you experience some of the Wisdom, Word, Wind that has affected me as I created these songs.  I enjoy sharing my reflections.

May the deep peace of God abide in you and may you hear the depth of God’s call in the depth of your being.

More

One True Song

Way of the Wind

We are Waiting

Christmas ‘64

The Light of Love

Already Reconciled

Deep Calls to Deep

We Believe We Trust

Picardy

A Mighty Fortress

You Call me By My Name

2007

These are songs about the wonder of life and the generative power of God in creation.  God has made a universe that makes itself new again and again.  Life – death – life… It’s a joy to watch a little bit of it unfold and to reflect on it.  The creator is also the redeemer who romances it all out of nothing — always has, always will!

Down in the Seeded Ground

Love Sings Her Song

Vernal Reboot

My Astonished Heart

Mountain Top Feast

A Future Imagined

Till Earth Mirrors Heaven

Creation Alleluia

Good Enough

Between Exile and Home

It All Comes Home

Screem

Grandpa and granson Raleigh

At Faith Lutheran in West Fargo

pickin' for Raleigh

Jamin' with Dave Rogers at the Pickin' Parlor