Over the last 40 years I've written about two thousand songs with a desire to get them recorded .
I have always wanted to share my songs with others and in 1989 I began busking my songs in Sydney and around New South Wales .
I have been encouraged by fellow songwriters and musicians to continue writing . I went busking my songs all around the UK and Ireland from 1989 to 1991 and returned to Sydney with many memories of that experience .
From 1993 to 1999 I was invited to perform my songs around community radio stations in Sydney , The Blue Mountains and The Southern Highlands , then in 2005 I was encouraged to perform my songs at an Irish musical festivsl in Hyde Park Barracks on St Patricks Day in Sydney . Then afterwards I performed at pubs and folk clubs in the Southern Highlands .
In 2008 one of my songs entitled “Lost Sons Of Erin “ won first prize
in the Billboard Song contest in America . It was recorded by Robert and Wendy O’Hearn .
When you’re chasing a dream , it’s never an easy road to travel but I kept
believing my songs could catch on because of the good friends that have helped me with encouraging me in their words of support .
In 1996 I recorded an EP with 5 original songs at a Studio in Welby with Robert Harpley .
Currently in 2025 I am working on a new album , “Streets Of The Soul”
with 10 songs in LCDA studio with Fito Jorge , as the sound engineer who also arranged and produced my last album The Storyteller in 2022 .
Good things are well worth waiting for and after 40 years of writing songs , it’s been well worth the wait .
Thank you to all the people who appreciate the music I make .
You give me reason , you make my songs live and you are why I will continue to write and record because you believe in me .
Too many to name but you know who you are . I love you all .
We learn something new all the time. All this time I've been reading your stories I thought you were a storyteller. But here I have found that you are basically a songwriter.
It's certainly okay to be both, but I just didn't know.
I often find myself creating a cappella songs out of the blue that I sing to my partner. But unless I would have a way of recording them, I don't write down the lyrics and have no way of capturing the melodies that just pop into my head with ease. I have long ago forgotten how to write music that I learned in school. Perhaps I should turn on a recorder when I sing. And in that way have a legacy of songs like you do. Always searching for the gem in the scrap pile that becomes a big hit.
It's certainly okay to be both, but I just didn't know.
I often find myself creating a cappella songs out of the blue that I sing to my partner. But unless I would have a way of recording them, I don't write down the lyrics and have no way of capturing the melodies that just pop into my head with ease. I have long ago forgotten how to write music that I learned in school. Perhaps I should turn on a recorder when I sing. And in that way have a legacy of songs like you do. Always searching for the gem in the scrap pile that becomes a big hit.
Ron