A New Song: "Fogelberg"

June 23, 2010.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’ve talked about the Fogelberg Weekend on Facebook, but not here at the blog. It’s a pretty amazing thing that’s fallen in my lap in the past month. The last weekend of August, the City of Peoria, Illinois will dedicate a memorial to Dan Fogelberg along the riverside there. You can read about it here. […]

A New Song: I Wish You Could Cry

March 1, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

A new song I wrote over the past couple of weeks. Hope you like it. Lyrics below… I Wish You Could Cry What if I could promise you A net that you could not fall through That always holds? Or what if all I offered you Were arms that let you fall into A tender […]

Circle Concert Series: Saturday, February 20th

February 19, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

I’m pleased to let you know that I’ll be playing a show tomorrow night of my own, yes my own, music. For a multitude of reasons, that’s become a pretty rare event in the past few years. But the good folks a the Circle Concert Series (Paul and Harold, mainly) have invited me to come […]

A Love Song That’s True

February 14, 2010.Reading time 2 minutes.

Been hearing a lot of folks complaining about Valentine’s Day this year. Right there with you, friends. Here’s a song I wrote a few years back that makes fun of most of the love songs we like to play on this day. It will probably be on my next CD: A Love Song That’s True […]

Words I Cannot Say: A New Song

February 9, 2010.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A new song for you this morning. An instrumental one. Listen here: Words I Cannot Say (music by Eric Folkerth) If you can’t see the music player, you can download an mp3 here. Finishing it is my “Daily Gratitude” for today. Hope you like it. EF (And, yes, I know I’m a few days behind […]

Camp Nashbill Virtual Song Circle

October 9, 2009.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Many of us love a good song circle. Among the circles we love the most are the song circles at “Camp Nashbill” at the Kerrville Folk Fest. In the belief that “it can be this way always,” below you will be our growing attempt at a “virtual song circle,” uploaded songs from our Camp Nashbill […]

Walk With Me (A New Song!)

June 26, 2009.Reading time 3 minutes.

So, this morning, I joked on Facebook that I was going to stay off the computer all day today. And, except for one relapse at approximately 9:30 (where I was busted by Susan B, Frank R, and Lisa M., all three…) I kept to my word. In a perfect world, Fridays would always be a […]

Ishmael and Isaace Video

January 2, 2009.Reading time 2 minutes.

This is a video for my song “Ishmael and Isaac,” which I wrote some years back about the Arab/Israeli conflict. I hope it will be received more as a work of art than as a political statement, although I am quite aware that people will lay their own political views on top of it. My […]

Follow Up on Fogelberg

December 19, 2007.Reading time 16 minutes.

“Death is there to keep us honest, and contantly remind us we are free.” –Dan Fogelberg I’m feeling a mixture of sadness and embarrassment. It all has to do with what I blogged about Sunday night: the death of Dan Fogelberg.First, I am genuinely surprised with how genuinely sad I still am. After all, […]

In The Music Room

May 24, 2006.Reading time 1 minute.

Had a great time at the Wildflower Festival on Friday. It was fun to be the kick-off set for the Acoustic Cafe….good to see a lot of music friends out there. A great Dallas songwriter named Randy Tredway has created an online radio show that he calls “In the Music Room.” Randy invites musicians in […]