This is my acoustic site. Please also check out www.myspace.com/peteralexanderband to see lots of photos and hear demo cuts of my rock trio. Also see www.peteralexander.us
The songs above are all from my new solo CD, In Between Blues, which you can download as individual MP3 files, or order from me directly by writing to my regular addressL cristobl (at) tds (dot) net.
I often play solo acoustic, or with a bass player, but also perform with my rock trio. Most of my material seems to work all three ways. My song-writing career started early enough--I was thriteen when I set Lewis Carrol's "Jabberwocky" to an Elizabethan melody of my own making--but it took a very long hiatus while I came to grips with growing up, having children, being real, earning money, and all that stuff. In January 2004 I woke up one morning after three days of delerium from a bad case of the flu, and the entirety of "Let us Try Again" was in my head. I picked up my guitar and played it from beginning to end, much to my own astonishment. You can hear that song at my other My Space site (see above).
"Let Us Try Again" was a total gift to me, in that it took no work--it just popped up. I've had that happen only a few other times. Inspiration comes from many places, but I have come to accept that there's usually some work involved in crafting a song once an idea takes root. "Johnny D," for example, is based loosely on a friend i had in grade school who was always getting busted for things we both did, but for which I rarely got caught. His life pretty much went to hell, while I cruised above the troubles we both earned, but which I somehow escaped. The hardest part in wriiting the song was to keep it from sounding preachy. i'm not sure I succeeded, but I'm comfortable singing it, at least. The bottom line for me, musically, is that I have to "own" a song--it's got to be an expression of something real in me.
If you're interested in purchasing one of my "demo" CD's please write to me on this site. I'd like to hear from you.
Peter Alexander 11/05/07
