I record a new TV show roughly every 6 weeks. I am now recording these shows at home using a video camera and my computer. After I edit the show I burn a DVD and give it to the local cable company and they put it on the air for free. After that I load the video file, strip the sound off of it, and make mp3 files to post on this site. The only exception is if I would be rehearsing during December. This gives me a chance to relax and enjoy the holidays. That show will just be a little delayed and the old one will continue to run.

Although I no longer work on a monthly schedule here is an example of how far ahead I have to work on these shows. I try to write one or two new songs for each show. For example the July show is posted at the beginning of July so I spend the month of June learning and rehearsing the songs for that show. The new songs have to be finished by the first of June and so I am writing them during the month of May. Although I shouldn't I Often put off writing these songs until the last few days of the month. So I am writing two months ahead.

I am once again constrained by the demands of TV so I will continue doing a half hour show. That seems a good length for my audience, not too long and not too short. What audience? Nobody is really watching and/or listening.

There is time for eight songs in a half hour show so I need six or seven more. I look back through my files to find songs that I had written for earlier shows. I do not repeat a song any more often than thirteen months.

I choose one song I have used once before, one song I have used twice before, and so forth until I have seven songs all together. Then I select a traditional folksong or a Gospel song which is in the public domain. Like those I have written this last one will not be repeated any more often than thirteen months. Sometimes I have to reconsider because there may be too many songs of similar tempo. Then I have to put them in some kind of order that makes sense. I try to lead off the show with a song which is fast and maybe funny and end the show with a song which is both fast and funny. Then I set what goes in between . If there is a Gospel song it usually goes at position four or five depending on its tempo and that of the songs around it. Although It's not a hard and fast rule I often place the two new songs as the last two songs on the show. Then I start practicing. That's what goes into making a web cast show.

Sometimes I am asked "How much do you get paid for being on TV?" The answer is bad news. "NOTHING!" The even worse news is if I should want to continue doing public access TV recorded in the cable company's studio I would have to pay 40 bucks an hour for the time. The camera and video editing software cost about a year and a half of studio time.

At the present time it is my intention to make a CD every year. Well, the road to you know where is paved with you know what. I now have 5 CDs. I have been doing this for more than 5 years so you can see I didn't keep to this schedule.

Two thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water and the other one third is covered with songwriters.