brett - ProfilesArchive

About Me

My name is Brett, and I joined the "over 40 club" this year. I love music - all kinds. I play guitar a little and write a little, and I really would like to make music a bigger part of my life this year. I particularly like traditional folk music. I am usually busy, between work and my family. My wife’s name is Neeley and she is a wonderful artist. I have four children who are sometimes wonderful... Hillary is 17, Emma is 12, Bennett is 8, and Lillie 7. I ’m always looking for people to play music with, so if you live near North East, MD, give me a holler. I’m always looking for a chess game and I hold occasional Texas hold-em tournaments at the house. I also like to talk about ideas and philosophy, and I like to meet people who are different than I am. I have a couple of my songs on here. I taped them on an old tape recorder, and my brother turned them into digital files, so the sound quality isn’t the greatest. I’m saving up to record them for real. Anywy, let me know what you think. I also put some of my poetry in my blog section. I’d love to hear anything you wanted to say about them as well. I come from a conservative, Christian, farm family background, and I definitely prefer rural to urban. I do enjoy talking to people with different ideas than myself. So many people, it seems are convinced they are right. I tend to be open to new ideas and therefore I probably don’t fare well as a debater because I can be swayed. This may be a weakness, but I prefer it to having a closed mind._______________________________________________________ ____________________GENERAL INTERESTS: Music, family, breaking bread with friends, chess, gardening, reading, learning, old John Deere tractors ____________________________________________________________ _______________ MUSIC INTERESTS: Folk, singer/songwriter, acoustic, jazz, classical, rock and roll, ____________________________________________________________ _______________ MOVIE INTERESTS: old movies, Humphrey Bogart, (to have and have not, the left hand of god) Gregory Peck, (cape fear, to kill a mockingbird, big country) Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Betty Davis, Katherine Hepburn ... ____________________________________________________________ _______________ BOOKS: Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, Tale of Two Cities, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Count of Monte Cristo, Jane Eyre, The Fountainhead, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, anything by Isaac Asimov...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/9/2007
Influences: Pentangle, Stan Rogers, Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, Ralph Stanley, Indigo Girls, Full Frontal Folk, Zoe Speaks, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, Bob Dylan, Pete Seger, Joan Baez, The Who, Tori Amos, Christina Harrison, Red Molly, Jenn Minor, CSNY, and so many others
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Footprints Left Below by Hugh Campbell

I heard this incredible song by Hugh Campbell on the Cecil Soil magazine website!Visit www.cecilsoilmagazine.com/BPP/index.html and check it out! Also check out Hugh and Zane Campbell's myspace at www...
Posted by brett on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:28:00 PST

Freedom’s Lament

Freedom's LamentI break down and cry.I don't want to see my children die.Yes I love my country;I feel patriotic pride,And I recognize the sacrificesOf all those who fought and died.And I believe that ...
Posted by brett on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:02:00 PST

My Chaos

Ashamed, abashed, but yet I must admitPast times I wished my life would change it’s pace,And all were quiet, each was in it’s place.The chaos, the cacophony would quit.And so my days be ne...
Posted by brett on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:04:00 PST

Mom’s Deadline

In darkness I awake and hear her sigh.’Tis long since chimes have struck the change of day,And only now she tucks herself away,As if to, in a subtle way, defyHer human self on which she must rel...
Posted by brett on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:12:00 PST

song lyrics

The wind and waves are warnings of what's hidden by the night.I see you and I worry what will be.Has everyone abandoned you? Are you strong enough to fight?Are you left to stand alone Against the ...
Posted by brett on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:52:00 PST

not the man I am (lyrics)

Not the Man I AmI woke this morning from a dream;It took a minute, maybe two.I didn't quite know where I was,So I called out to you.And as I lay upon my bed,Slowly it came back to me,My life, the way ...
Posted by brett on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:47:00 PST

Fading to Oblivion lyrics

Fading to OblivionI get so tired of the emptiness in my heart.There once was a time I thought I was smart.I don't have any answers, now I can't even think.My life was simple before I met you.Now I am ...
Posted by brett on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:44:00 PST

sonnet

The love inside a heart - an ember burns For fire little watched and tended less; The long dead flame left in its emptiness, but not yet quenched, remembers still and yearns. For days ...
Posted by brett on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:09:00 PST

sonnet

To say "I know", and then to say "I knew",(While pondering some self-obsessive careThe close of day has caught me unaware)A friend is lost in eve's e'er-changing hue, And robes of gentle darkness, lac...
Posted by brett on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:14:00 PST

school trip

Today I went to the Philadelphia Zoo with my daughter's kindergarten class. We saw animals I never knew existed. We walked and talked. She seemed particularly impressed with one giant tortoise on the ...
Posted by brett on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:00:00 PST