You meet all kinds on the tourist side of town. I spent several years of my youth traveling around the tropics after leaving the Navy. This was released in 2004 on 'Time is Talking', my first CD with AMAZ Records. We all hope for it, and some of us are lucky enough to experience it, even briefly. Some of the bravest people I've ever met. I wrote this song while doing a series of benefit shows for SEEDS, an organization that helps domestic abuse survivors escape and start new lives away from the threat of violence. I still remember Daddy walking by her once, patting her fanny, and saying 'There's a little silver in the leaves, but the roots are still firm!' Little pitchers have big ears. She and Daddy raised ten kids on a self-supporting farm in North Carolina, I was the youngest. The distance can be enormous between their lives, or as thin as a sheet of tinted glass.Ĭo-written with Kevin Sharp when he came back all inspired from a songwriting conference in Austin.Ī song I wrote for my Mom. Haves and have-nots inhabit our world in estranged proximity. Tinted Windows is an attempt to convey the disconnect between artist and audience, outsider and insider, unsuccessful and successful. still has several years left to serve before he can tour again. It was intended as a Red Dirt Country ballad for the group's tour, but this was cut short by Graham's sentencing in a tragic traffic fatality. was performing with Sour Diesel Trainwreck.

Green Tornado Sky was a collaboration between Jim Pipkin and J.D. They had been challenged by Robert Zucker of AMAZ Radio to write a Cowboy Christmas song.so here y'go. Many years later Jim and Cliff got together on a hot August day in Arizona to write a song about Christmas, cowboys, and snowstorms. Jim Pipkin won his first (and only) blue ribbon in a rodeo at age 12, calf roping. Recorded at Hit Warehouse, Mesa AZ, August 2018Ĭliff Cordes rode for the Triangle C in the Wind River Range.

The song took almost twenty years from concept to final recording, in many ways mirroring the long journey so many experience trying to make a dent in the music business. Rollin the Dice was inspired by several young and ambitious hopefuls I met on my trips to Nashville from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. NEW ORIGINAL COWBOY CHRISTMAS SINGLE 'WIND RIVER CHRISTMAS' DROPPED OCTOBER 2018 EXCLUSIVELY VIA AIRPLAY DIRECT, AND REMAINS IN TOP FIVE FOR THAT MONTH ON THE APD AMERICANA/GRASSICANA CHART! Original songs hammered out of American experiences from Tornado Alley to Music Row.

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