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After a heavy snow winter all through New England, March brought warm rains over much of the eastern seaboard. Ice broke up and was hurtled down ri...

I suppose it's a good thing, that before a song gets fixed in your head, you pick up the guitar and let another version flow out on its own terms.....

"Mercy me." (My grandmother used to say that). You can figure out for yourself what YOUR long hallway is... for me, it's the space that occurs betw...

Here is the true feel-good Obama inauguration song, written with clever references to Dr. King. Solo acoustic guitar. Song written Jan. 17, 2009.

L...

Ahhh...love...and loss. We've all been there, right? If you haven't, you need to try it out...Don't forget that not so famous Chinese saying, "Sorr...

The angst of parent and teen alike is captured in a song designed to amuse you, annoy you, anesthetize you, and make you ecstactic that you don't h...

How does one choose from amongst all the beautiful love songs in the world? This lament has a special quality that aches with a stark longing each...

Log drives throughout New England created some of the richest and most colorful stories to come out of that historical period in the late 1800's an...

My fellow New Englanders... this has been a trying spring & summer weatherwise... the constant rain has discouraged any extended outdoor activities...

A masterful version of the classic river tune, bathed in romanticism by the sensuous accordion addition of Bob Strokerfarb, of Arlington fame. The ...

(Lyrics-click "more") I think the moon caught me on this one, spun me around. I can feel the werewolf comin' through. IS this about my son, Walker...

Thanks to brother Ted Kirk for this superior concert footage from Greenfield; thanks for flyin' in all the way from Mahtomedi. The sound quality an...

Music: Carlton Martin; lyrics: J.M. Field Lyrics--click "more info." Jamoof... Well, I already have a rapper name, so why not give it a try?...

Lyrics? Click: "More info." ...You decide: is this song supposed to be played frenetically, like a frayed nerve, or slowed and drawn out? This on...

Lyrics? Click small arrow at right. There's no devastation quite like heartbreak; it leaves holes EVERYWHERE... This sad country waltz explores th...

Salacious songwriting from the imaginative mind of J.M. Field. Lyrics: (Click for more at right):

I must confess

Id like to caress

All the rest

Of...

Lawd! Join the sexy soiree! Lyrics: click button at right. Tommy James & the Shondells indeed!!

Is there anything about her that I don't adore?

Is...

WHAT is the "hardest easy thing" you might ask? Hey, give a listen... you figure it out. Pick along with me.

The Hardest Easy Thing by J.M. F...

Country Music!!! Alright!! (Hit button at right for lyrics) I tried to do Steve Goodman one better by improving on his "recipe" country song... (re...

This is a heartfelt and beautiful poem that I read online and immediately heard a simple melody coming through. I picked the title and chorus out ...

Late in life (but not too late in life!) I have discovered Mary Oliver's poetry. It drags me back into the woods, willingly succumbing to all the s...

I'm impressed with the line-up of famous poets that lived and wrote during our Civil War: Walt Whitman (1819-'92), Herman Melville (1819-'91), Henr...

Frivolous fun; lighter than air; hope you like it.

Lyrics:

I will be your Superman

Leap tall buildings if I can

Save my leading lady

No if's or bu...

She said, he said.

The torture of love.

If You Love Me Let Me Go by John-Michael Field rewrite 6/9/10

If you love me let me go-

Give me the spa...

No, it's NOT a song about stalking! It's about SOULMATES. DUH... a frisky little tune in need of a bridge; a wailing jazz clarinet would suffice. ...

From Jamoof's late-nite Garage Series: another tale of dedicated love, passion on hold, and patience. Written 6-20-10.

Lyrics:

Well, I miss you ...

A song for all the "soulmate" lovers out there...:

LYRICS:

I belong to you

In my soul I know it's true

Our thoughts may doubt and flail about

But a...

Some would say that this is John Prine meets Dr. Seuss. That works for me; they're both major influences in my life. Recorded in the Little House, ...

from the Jamoof archives, circa 1980, written at Zealand Falls Hut after a long winter of caretaking in the White Mtns. of New Hamster. Some of my ...

Oh geez, my secret's out. Yes, I DID work for the Central Intelligence Agency (contradiction in terms...) briefly, but if I told you about it, I'd ...

"Morning will rise in the east tangled and brazen..." This song is composed from the Mary Oliver poem of the same name; I used her words exactly, ...

Grizzlies...my 13-year old son, Walker, and I are Grizzly addicts... we'll drive 2,500 miles to Glacier National Pk. to cavort with them. Walker ch...

Steve Earle wrote the best prison song of all time, from the perspective of a man about to be put to death and coming to terms with what he's done ...

A barfly's lament... "you've left my heart a vacant lot... I'll fill it with another shot..."

What a great title. Long live John Prine. Lyrics:

I...

Primal. Beseeching. Late-nite open-your-mind angst from the floating, tortured soul of J. M. Field. Acknowledgements to Emerson, Lake & Palmer; I ...

Simple. Ditty. Simple ditty. Truth? Who knows?

Lyrics:

Well, I'm living an illusion; it's alive as it can be

And it provokes me with the notion tha...

I am most at home with myself when I'm searching out the course a song will take. Riding a wave but not tossed by it, down through the chute. I l...

O-riginal composition by J.M. Field... Lyrics:

Promised Land

10-23-10 12:30 am

Twilight...

The light is fadin' stars are twinklin'.

It's alright.....

How is a song born? In this case I simply said the word, and it struck me as a perfect title for a tune. The rest that followed is a slightly longe...

Recorded at the Academy of Music, Nov. 7, 2010 at the "Living Along the River" benefit concert for the Connecticut River Watershed Council. Lyrics ...

I think the lyrics speak for themselves, eh?

GHOST LIFE

I've got acres of requited love to sift through

Searching for the diamond that I've lost...

This poem/song was inspired by a New Year's Eve trip I took in the 70's, with a bunch of scarmy-darmies... We entered Paxton's Cave at 11 pm on the...

I worked as a "street therapist" with mentally ill adults from about 1984 to 1997. I learned a lot from them. Not all of it was pretty.

I imagine N...

I imagined as I wrote this that it was certainly the kind of song that TS would write and perform. I saturated myself with "Speak Now" until it was...

Mom has had an interesting life, summed us thusly: married a spy 10 years older than her, who took her around the world and taught her to play brid...

Depending on your spirituality, this can be a song about a higher power, or simply a love song, but really, what's the difference? When I was one y...

Tony's takin' his time, runnin' around the world...three years! Please check him out at: theworldjog.com-blog if you have not done so already... ...

Too much whiteness! I know everyone has felt a certain new kind of unrest born of so many snow interruptions in our lives. I have tried to capture...

The raw angst of a young man trapped in a small town. I've enjoyed playing Steve Earle's song for about 15? 20 years? but can't remember how he per...

My mom was a brilliantly spirited woman who bravely reformed her life halfway through it in order to find the happiness and fulfillment she deserve...