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12 tracks | 52 minutes
Released Jun 2003
on Ben Scales
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:13 Dig Deep lyrics BUY MP3 03:13 Dig Deep lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:13 Dig Deep
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:17 She Loves Me lyrics BUY MP3 05:17 She Loves Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:17 She Loves Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:32 Where Does A Cowboy Go? lyrics BUY MP3 02:32 Where Does A Cowboy Go? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:32 Where Does A Cowboy Go?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:04 Holding You In My Arms lyrics BUY MP3 04:04 Holding You In My Arms lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:04 Holding You In My Arms
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:15 After You Let Go lyrics BUY MP3 03:15 After You Let Go lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:15 After You Let Go
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:39 Who Got Da Pugua? lyrics BUY MP3 04:39 Who Got Da Pugua? lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:39 Who Got Da Pugua?
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:28 Sweet Island Baby Magic lyrics BUY MP3 05:28 Sweet Island Baby Magic lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:28 Sweet Island Baby Magic
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 Grown-Up lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 Grown-Up lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 Grown-Up
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:10 Growing Marijuana In My Yard lyrics BUY MP3 03:10 Growing Marijuana In My Yard lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:10 Growing Marijuana In My Yard
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:08 I'm So Tired (Ah View) lyrics BUY MP3 05:08 I'm So Tired (Ah View) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:08 I'm So Tired (Ah View)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:10 Long Distance Blues lyrics BUY MP3 04:10 Long Distance Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:10 Long Distance Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:24 Goodbye lyrics BUY MP3 07:24 Goodbye lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:24 Goodbye
Home is discovered here, 10,000 miles from the scene of the accident of birth, on a tiny island in the Western Pacific Ocean.
Bio / Background
Saipan is a tiny little island in the western Pacific where I've lived since 1993. It was on Saipan that I became a husband and a father. It was here that I decided that I'd rather make a little bit of money playing music than a whole lot of money doing anything else. These songs, all recorded on Saipan, comprise my debut album.
The tunes range from romantic cowboy ballads to philosophical ponderings to tender reflections on love and parenthood. The overriding theme throughout is Fun with a capital "F" - folk music with a smile.
Because of MP3.com, I've been able to measure my music's appeal outside of the two or three bars I'm used to playing at on Saipan, and it's been encouraging. One of my songs, "She Loves Me," has been in the top 10 of the MP3.com Acoustic charts five different times over the past three years. Another song, "After You Let Go," went straight to Number 1 on that chart as soon as I released it in February 2002.
↓ more ↓But my biggest hit by far has been "Growing Marijuana In My Yard." Released in December 2002, this humor-based political anthem has topped the MP3.com Bluegrass chart almost every day since Feb. 10, 2003. It has also reached Number 5 on the MP3.com Country charts, surrounded by acts such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, George Strait, Mark Chesnutt, and Shania Twain (Mark's grand-niece, I guess).
On April 17, 2003, I was invited to perform the song at the NORML conference in San Francisco, after which High Times senior editor Steve Bloom called it "the musical highlight of the conference."
I'm a responsible family man, first and foremost, and I proudly support and promote reform of U.S. drug policy, which destroys families by incarcerating nearly 700,000 otherwise law-abiding Americans every year for simple possession of a natural plant.
My good friend and award-winning Texas songwriter, Billy Walden, wrote "Long Distance Blues," and he and I share writing credit for "Where Does A Cowboy Go?" I wrote "Who Got Da Pugua?" with my island braddah Ezra Johnson, a Hawaiian native who's lived on Saipan since the early 1980s, and who continues to teach me the true meaning of "ohana" ("family" in Hawaiian).
Thank you, Mahalo, Si Yu'us Ma'ase' from Saipan.
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