The Good Fight

The Good Fight is a song that I began a while ago and put away for a bit. It’s a bit of a melancholy song, and maybe not what I really wanted to follow up Homecoming with, but it’s a song that really has been on my mind recently and one that I wanted to...

Homecoming

Here’s a studio recording of Homecoming, which I hope you will enjoy and will serve as a kickoff to a new phase in which I’ll be releasing new songs more frequently than once every eight years. For the past several years, this song has only existed as a...

Ain’t Too Bright

It’s happened to me more than once — I am trying to work on developing a new song, and instead I end up developing an old song. It’s so enticing! After all, the old song is no doubt farther along than the new one, why not just work on it instead?...

About the song: The Fugitive

There’s one thing that The Fugitive has in common with other songs I wrote around the same time is that the title of the song doesn’t actually appear in the song. As a music listener, I hate when people do that. I mean, if I mentioned the songs Funk #49, Rainy Day...

About the new name

For the small number of avid fans who will actually note the change, the “Journeyman James” era has begun. I have been interested in putting more of my music onto the streaming services (where I have raked in over $1.19 in royalties to date!) and have been struggling...

Guitar after a broken wrist

A few thoughts about my return to playing after distal radius and ulnar styloid fracture and Colles’ Fracture surgery. A few years ago, I experienced a broken wrist in a high-speed cycling crash. I had surgery on the wrist and went through occupational therapy,...