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The 24 songs contained in my double CD, "One Heart At A Time", constitute a lifelong search to understand my journey. There are so many questions but so few answers. It's the questions that I pursue through my lyrics and my music.

I have found that if I approach my art with total honesty, then it will touch the hearts of others and allow them to identify and explore the message contained in my songs.

Out now on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon!

A few months before starting work on this album, I was browsing the American Civil War section in the local library. Casually flipping through the pages of a large pictorial book, I came across a photo of a young Confederate solider. His black and white formal portrait stared out from the pages, but it was the eyes that held my attention. They were the eyes of every young man who had gone to war from the beginning of time to the present day. In my mind, he became the universal soldier, transcending race, color, creed and gender. The liner notes said that his name was Edwin Jennison. He died in 1862 at the battle of Malvern Hill, aged somewhere between the ages of 14 and 16. I checked the book out and brought it home.

For days, the portrait of the young soldier haunted my thoughts, I wanted to know more about him, but all the information I had was contained in the liner notes below his picture. It was then I knew I had to give him a story so that his name would not be lost in time. Each piece of music that makes up this CD is a reflection of our life’s journey. Beginning with Private Edwin Jennison and ending with Drumtaps, you will find a common thread that questions out mortality, our triumphs and our failures, but with always an awareness that there is a bigger plan, always awareness that with faith we emerge from the darkness and into the Light.

This album is dedicated to all the men and women who go to war, not to conquer but to make this planet a safer place. This album is dedicated to Private Edwin Jennison—the Universal Solider.