All Those Roads was completed in 2006. It was the culmination of decades of songwriting. I stopped playing out in 1974 after a very short career as a folksinger, but I never stopped writing songs. They came to me in fits and starts through the years.

Some I would write, put away, and forget. Other I would write and rewrite, over and over again, in various versions, never really content with the results. When my son, Charlie a wonderful bassist, guitarist, singer, writer and artist and my daughter, Jessica, a terrific actor, singer and dancer, started developing a deep interest in the arts, I was inspired to play more and more music and began a new spurt in songwriting. In summer of 2005, Charlie sat me down and got me to make a short list of songs that I would like to record and turn into a CD.

Over the next six months I polished the songs, wrote arrangements and began recording. The result is the CD, All Those Roads, which was recorded, mixed and mastered by Charlie and myself. Charlie played the bass and did some singing.

Jessica sang lead on a couple of tracks and backup on a couple others. Francesca DeCaro sang backup along with Jessica on After Sunset . The beautiful flute on Ballad of Patrick and Anna is played by Georgia Conroy.

The CD title, All Those Roads, came naturally from the title cut. When I looked over the list of songs I had compiled, there was a clear theme, the long road from a teenager in Chicago to a husband, father and steady citizen in Newbury Park , California. The song All Those Roads basically says that all of the wrong turns a person takes in his travels don't matter at all if he end's up with people he loves. And that is how I ended up. I wish the same for you!