Recordings
Behind the Mask
Behind The Mask
Released: 11/13/2022
Format: Digital Download, CD
Released in November 2022. Once again I found myself with a plethora of songs wondering what you wanted to hear. Like many creative creatures, the Covid 19 Pandemic & Road Show had been invading my notebooks and with this, the question: “Who’s not sick of hearing about it?”. I recorded a couple songs just in case. Saving the planet? Got it. That job sucked anyway…got it! Don’t be a dick? Got it. Trump….#*$$$! There are more songs of love, hope and family ties than I expected. Check out “Things Change” with Doug MacArthur on guitar, Brian Chaffee on keys and vocals, my Sister & Kris Lucander as well as “Norma Jean’s Final Scene” and “Hangin’ with the Heathens!”. Thanks for listening.
At Home Alone
At Home alone
Released: 12/30/2012
Format: Digital Download, CD
Songs from well….all over. There’s one written on a very important birthday (at least it seemed that way at the time), a song inspired by purchasing the house my father grew up in, and a song from the “Tunesmith” set list with many more off-kilter ode’s and ends. Happy and sad, serious and kookoo…it’s all here. Secret Men’s Club right?
Don’t Get Me Started
Don’t Get Me Started
Released: 12/13/2008
Format: Digital Download, CD
As usual, I called it early! Not really early but there is a song about water conservation and Las Vegas. There are sixteen songs on this CD. I had a lot on my mind once upon a time. By the way “Christmas Trees are people too” and you can condense the “Histry’ of Art” into just a few minutes. We have too many immense talents to name on this project, but we do in the liner notes…remember those?
Four
Four
Released: 12/30/2005
Format: Digital Download, CD
As this ingenious title suggests, this is my third, no, fifth CD recording. So hard to keep track. This is the musical evidence of my love for my wife and stepchildren and after four CD’s, I’m still writing songs about them and their children who call me funny names and sometimes throw small vehicles at me. It’s not all love and domestic bliss here folks, we have “Nikita Kruschev”, “The Piercing Song” and the dating app anthem “She Dropped the Bomb.com” keeping it real. Other world problems are solved here and in subsequent recordings. You’re Welcome!
*Track #9 “She dropped the Bomb” and track #11 “What goes around” were co-written by Mark and John Papp.
Scratch Board
Scratch Board
Released: 12/30/1999
Format: Digital Download, CD
This collection is recorded and produced by Crit Harmon (Martin Sexton, Mary Gautier & more) along with Mark Thayer (Mark Erelli) from Signature Sounds Recording Studio. It has a production sensibility in the Americana genre and features Joe (Sonny) Barbado on piano (nine foot Yamaha Grand), Hammond B3 organ (the real thing), and accordion. Roger Williams joins me once again on dobro, Kris Lucander (as always) on acoustic bass (dog house) while the great Billy Novick plays Irish Flute. This just might be my favorite MFF recording. Might could be!
BirthMark
BirthMark
Released: 12/31/1996
Format: Digital Download, CD
My sophomore CD and therefore I had written a lot of songs previously. It was a challenge to select a cohesive collection. Luckily my band had been honing these tunes doing live shows for awhile and were ready to record. I brought Jennifer Kimball (the Story) in for her amazing and inventive harmony vocals, and Stuart Schulman (Jonathan Edwards long time side man) to play the violin on “The Wren” and “Don’t go out on the Ice”, With a few exceptions this is a folk rock album with full band production. Please check it out, I’m so proud of my song babies!
They Went North
They Went North
Released: 12/3/1994
Format: Digital Download, CD
I had a lot of folky tunes and a herd of counrty/americana flavored songs as well so what do you do? I basically split the CD in two like sides one and two of a vinyl LP. Yes, I said that. The title track is about the Franklin Expedition so we tried to get a bit of the nautical vibe there. My old friend Ducky Belliveau came in to play his special saucy Telecaster and the pedal steel parts, and the late great Claude T. Wagner is in on the country flavor bass guitar. This CD happens to contain my wife’s favorite song “The Rainbow’s End”. I wrote it during a break at my job at the firearms factory, a job that was so terrible that I forced them to put me in front of a firing squad, or a farting squid, what’s the difference right?