Five hours from the nearest Interstate in a remote wilderness… I began these recordings during a hoary winter feeling defeated from a lack of direction, reeling from a withering relationship and the recent passing of my father. It was there that I began crafting songs in a hunter’s cabin in the Vallecito Lake region nestled up against the vast Weminuche Wilderness of South Western Colorado. This is where the initial 10 songs of 1969 Gypsy were humbly recorded on a Roland VS-880. The electricity was unreliable, the cabin lacked modern insulation, but the experience was truly transformational. I could make music… alone. Ironically, that demo set me on a winding road of bands, band names, cities and dimly lit night-clubs that ends here with this compilation. Hundreds of songs, dozens of bands and a myriad of gigs later, 1969 Gypsy marks the departure of the singer/songwriter defeated behind a mosaic of pseudonyms and the unveiling of the vulnerable man himself…

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