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Christopher posts new creations here every month, including music, original articles, poems and music videos! (His music tracks are also available everywhere across the Web, although you can usually download them here for free.) If you’re visiting this site for the first time, you’ll find a collection of Fan Favorite releases further down this page!

Chris has been creating a series of concept albums; he’s currently releasing tracks from album #7,  The Heart Chronicles (see below).  (You can check out tracks from his previous six albums—four of which are available on CD—by clicking on the album icons to the left!) Chris has also nearly completed an all-original Christmas album; look for a new track from that project this December! Meanwhile, Chris is releasing occasional singles that will appear on other future albums.

Please stop by every month to see and hear what’s new—and if you like what you find, please share it with your friends!

This month: Finding new love, and real-life ghost stories!

 

 

 

 

 

(To read the lyrics to Humdinger, click here!)

Second, for this spooky month, a collection of first-hand ghost stories shared by people I’ve known (and one person everyone knows), titled Ghostly Encounters. The final story in this collection is the account of my own life-changing encounter with an apparition many years ago! Fasten your seatbelts!

At first I didn’t want to release this collection of tales at Halloween, because these are real first-hand stories about extraordinary experiences, some of which were deeply moving. I didn’t want to belittle them as “holiday ghost stories.” On the other hand, why not share them at this time of year? So I’ve decided to go ahead and put them out into the universe!

To read Ghostly Encounters, click here!

The Heart Chronicles uses songs to tell a chronological story about a young man’s experiences as he discovers that falling in love is awesome — but staying in love takes a lot of work.

Creating something like this has been on my mind since my earliest days as a songwriter; in fact, I performed a one-man show along these lines in New York City in my 20s. (I have no doubt that Joni Mitchell’s album Court and Spark — a masterpiece that uses brilliant, insightful songs to tell the story of a failed love affair — motivated me to attempt it.) In those days, I wasn’t in a position to record an album, so after doing my one-man show I set aside the idea. But I always knew I’d come back to it. Today, with many more songs in my repertoire about the challenges of being in a relationship, I can assemble a pretty compelling story.

Below, you’ll find the songs I’ve already released as part of this project. Only a few songs remain, and they’ll be released in the upcoming months!

Act One: Falling

 

Click to hear the songs!

 

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Click to read (or listen to) the poems!