WELCOME AND THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY HOME ON THE WEB AND THE HOME OF MY RECORD LABEL, RESTLESS WIND RECORDS ® AND MY 1950’s LABEL, HI-FI RECORDS ®.
Here you will find a long and winding road of emotions and memories born in the dreams of a country boy flowing through the lyrics and music in my songs.
This finds me now a long way from the choir loft where I first honed my singing vocals in the small country church that I attended as a young boy with my family, to a budding songwriter while in high school in the late 1950's and being a member of garage bands while in university and in later years leading to modest country stages where I have entertained countless audiences, to landing two No. 1 songs on the CASHBOX Magazine Country Chart, numerous No. 1 songs on various indie music charts, twice nominated in the Hamilton Music Awards, several times represented as a Juno contender as Songwriter of the Year, five albums and a collection of singles released, and most recently a Best Music Video Award at the Summer 2023 Rome International Short Festival and an Award of Recognition in three categories at the IndieFest Film Awards, La Jolla, California, including the beautiful statuette (pictured below made by the same company that makes the Emmy and Oscar statuettes), I have literally book-ended my multi-faceted entrepreneurial and music careers as both an award-winning singer/songwriter and as an author.
“On behalf and appreciation of my recording and video team and crew including Michael Gogol - music composer, and Jody Matheson - video producer, I am greatly honoured to receive an Award of Recognition at The IndieFEST Film Awards, La Jolla, California, for our profound and penetrating music video What In The World Is The World Coming To in each of the three following categories: Music Video, Contemporary Issues/Awareness Raising, and Dramatic Impact. The song and video is a reflection of the troubling times we face during current worsening and worrisome events foreboding the unraveling of the threads of democracy". ~ Neil w Young - lyricist, vocalist, video director and executive producer.
The video is available to watch here in VIDEOS as well as on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr_bvGomKu4.
My life is a story ... music decorates the pages ®
I was honoured to be featured on the cover of the January 2022 issue of NEIGHBOURS OF PARIS ON THE GRAND magazine along with more photos in the 4-page article on the inside pages.