While listening to the Americana Cable station, I discovered a new song and new songwriter I like. Kieran Kane is a session guitarist, singer and song writer who I intend to learn more about. He has a webpage here. That site says this about him: “Kieran Kane’s music is adult in the truest sense of the word. His explorations of mature love (The Blue Chair’s “Honeymoon Wine”), friends’ struggles with personal difficulties (“Kill the Demon” from Six Months, No Sun), and the meaning of life (Shadows on the Ground’s title cut) lead directly to his philosophical explorations of faith and life on his latest release, You Can’t Save Everybody (with Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin).

“The maturity is not surprising; Kieran’s been a successful Top Ten solo artist, a member of the duo The O’Kanes (with Jamie O’Hara), with whom he had six more Top Tens and received rave reviews, and a successful songwriter (he wrote Alan Jackson’s huge hit “I’ll Go On Loving You”). After The O’Kanes split up due to pressure from the major label they were on, Kieran put out another solo album, Find My Way Home, in 1993 with Atlantic, which was produced by his future Dead Reckoning partner Harry Stinson. Even though the record was critically acclaimed, the airplay wasn’t enough for Atlantic and Kieran left–and soon formed Dead Reckoning with Stinson, Kevin Welch, Tammy Rogers and Mike Henderson.” Kane is also a visual artist, and you can see some of his art here.

FOUR QUESTIONS

I`VE GOT FOUR QUESTIONS
THAT TORMENT MY SOUL,
I SEARCH FOR ANSWERS
THAT NOBODY KNOWS.
I`VE TURNED TO THE BIBLE
AND THE WAGES OF SIN,
BUT NO SATISFACTION
COULD BE FOUND HEREIN.

SO I WENT TO THE MOUNTAIN,
THE MOUNTAIN SO HIGH.
I CLIMBED TO THE SUMMIT,
AND I LOOKED AT THE SKY.
BUT NO WORDS WERE WRITTEN
UP THERE IN THE CLOUDS,
TO RELIEVE THESE QUESTIONS
THAT TROUBLE ME NOW:

[Chorus]:
WHO IS SHE WITH?
WHAT IS SHE DOING?
WHERE IS SHE NOW?
AND WHY DID SHE GO?
WHO IS SHE WITH?
WHAT IS SHE DOING?
WHERE IS SHE NOW?
AND WHY DID SHE GO?

[verse 2]:
MAYBE TOMORROW
I`LL WALK TO THE SEA,
SWIM TO THE BOTTOM
SO COLD AND SO DEEP.
AND THERE IN THE DARKNESS
PERHAPS I WILL FIND
RELEASE FROM THESE QUESTIONS
THAT BURDEN MY MIND:

[Chorus]:

Pittman Book Signing News:

This weekend I’ll be at the University Park Barnes and Noble and at the Sundance (downtown Ft. Worth) Barnes and Noble as well as attending a special event at the Texas Civil War Museum.