Tonight my friend Les Oman is playing on HomeSongs4Life, in the company of Davey McCallum and Manus McGeehan.

Les and I live in the same wonderful, wee town, and knew each other a little through the music. We happened to meet up one day just at the time of the previous American president’s inauguration. We got talking about The State Of Things (over there and in general) and came away from that chat with a song title. A couple of months later we had together written all the songs for the album we subsequently recorded, called Too Much Of Everything.

Yes, this a plug. We’re very proud of that album and although inspired by particular events, it seems to have an ongoing resonance.

Making music with others can certainly be a personal salvation at times. Even if it doesn’t change anything very much.