Songs on the CD
Lie to Me
My ex-band mates David K. and Ed R. wrote this song. Most of David's romantic lyrics were about his ex-wife. I dont know about Ed, but I never said, Get over it! to David. I just kept watching his feelings become musical lyrics.
Automatic Man
I couldn't find chords to house this melody. I enlisted my old song writing partner, Ed R. in S.F., even though we had never co-written long distance . He sent chords, but it was 5 years before they saved the song from the unfinished song drawer.
Love You Save
Martin Wolf, a record collector, first played this song for me in the 70's when he was chef at Ann Arbors The Earle. During those days any questions asked that didnt start, "How are you?"; began with "Have you heard....."
Lead Guitar/Ed Rudolph Sony/ATV Tree Music BMI*
Soothe My Soul
I did a guest DJ show at KVNF public radio Paonia, CO with Patricia Starr. I heard a tape of Jeff, their engineer, interviewing T. Ray. It ended with him playing this song. I reached him 15 yrs later to ask if I could use his song. When I asked if he ever recorded it, he said, "I don't think so". I was told he is an artistic painter also.
I Just Want to Eat Chocolate
I was getting a lot of fund raising mail after an initial gift to Green Peace. I listened to my brain-talk as I threw away the appeals complete with pictures of children, dolphins, wolves, trees, oceans and rivers all in need.
Old People
I was driving an old manual floor shift and had a back seat full of big, leaning, freshly cut glass for picture framing. I started down a steep freeway ramp behind a very small old woman driving a huge Cadillac. We both sped up until she realized she could not see what she was merging into. She stopped. I stopped. The glass shattered.
Dear Barney
Cindy Laverty performed this with piano in 1976, mixing Cole Porter, Tom Waits, Michael Smith, Keith Jarrett, and others, in her sets. She told me it was about Barney on the Andy Griffith show although Juanita was never portrayed during the series only talked about.
Happiness
I went to a famous psychic who told me I wouldn't know happiness if it bit me awake in the morning. It wasn't the usual vague reading. I was thinking about it as I played the guitar and soon this song came. I played it over and over, trancelike, like I use to see my mentor Peter Koerner do in the 60's around Oakland University.
Gates of Love
This is another song I learned from Patricia Starrs radio show in CO. Cindy and I sang it together at summer camp with some friends on the chorus who called themselves THE WORMAN TABERNACLE CHOIR.
Harmony Vocal/Cindy Annchild ©Andrew Calhoun*
The Way You Do
Cindy and I were a new couple talking about our upcoming Christmas. She said she liked experiences for gifts. When I asked, "Like what"? she answered, "Like a new song you'd sing for me". It wasn't done until the next Christmas because I thought it had to be about her, but she meant for me to sing any new song for her.
Shingle by Shingle
Cindy Annchild and I saw Eric Bibb at The ARK; we both came away liking this song best. She asked me to learn it. When I did, the lyrics didn't quite describe our relationship, so I changed them somewhat.
Will My Woman Come
I was visiting my first girlfriend Indra in Wash. D.C. during the gas shortage of 1979. She left me alone in the house that had a piano. Indra spent most of the day caring - shopping for her cat who had leukemia. She cured the cat, but my song didn't win Indy back.
Little Bit
I always say I wrote THE WAY YOU DO for Cindy and this one about Cindy. If you don't know Cindy, then you will a little after listening to this one.
All songs, guitar and vocal/Bruce Woman
©Copyright 2006 Bruce Worman. All rights reserved.
* Used by permission.