Rockabilly isn't a genre listed on the drop down menu. My target market would be Country for this holiday song.

It's almost time for that Christmas season to begin. Every mall in America is going to be decorated and filled with music for the holiday festivities. My goal was to create something different from all the other traditional holiday songs people hear around this time of year.

I had this idea a long time ago. A buddy (Chris Loid) and I sat down and wrote it. It's meant to be fun, patriotic, inclusive, and applicable to the upcoming (in a couple years) 20th anniversary of 911.

When she's moved on...and you haven't. Produced by Pearl Snap Studios, Nashville.

Ron Hirsch Jr sent me some lyrics and I heard them as a straight up country rock n roll!

It's that familiar situation where you keep on coming back for more... For good or bad!

I also aimed to record it first takes and apart from a few vocal and drumming false starts what you hear is first takes right through no edits

Family, protection, big brother.

That epiphany you have when a relationship is deepening - from this moment on, nothing will ever be the same.
Off my new album, "One More Moment"

...it don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing...

I texted my childhood sweetheart on Facebook after 40 years & told her I have loved twice in my life & am with neither woman today. She was my first love & my last love had recently gone away. I texted her "First Love, Last Love" & also told her "First love, Last Love" would be a great song TITLE. I was gonna work on it immediately. I kicked it around in my head for a week & finally picked up the guitar & worked out the HOOK. Originally it was my personal story about 2 loves lost. The early versions were too personal & painful to write. But I tried, & was almost ready to give up on the song as I felt it was just me healing. In fact, the first tag line I wrote originally went "Sometimes baby love AIN'T meant to be". But I didn't want a break up song, or a love lost song. There's enough of those. Instinctively I began to write about how love should be & could be. Plus I thought when someone hears this TITLE they are gonna want it to be about a first love that is also their last love. A love that lasts. I think deep down we all want to believe that. So the TITLE called that out for me to change the direction of the song, & I listened. So I wrote about how I feel love is meant to be. Hopefully I have captured that for others in their search for love as well. I may not be with my "First Love" or for that matter, my "Last Love", but I got a helluva song out of it....

Wrote this a few years back. I wanted to paint in the gray colors of the dust bowl, both visually and thematically. Note that my recording doesn't exactly reflect the lyric (which is more current), specifically I beat on V4 a bit.