I am happy to welcome you to my site and to my Music.

In the summer of 2010, I invested in a recording system for my music. At that time, I was 60 years under this “yellow button sun.”

Today, at the time of this writing, I’m 76 and have been recording my solo piano adventure for 16 years. From this effort, I have inherited a wealth of material. I could not have know then how much it would mean to me or where it would lead. These songs are my wealth, my heritage and a thankful response to this “version of Death called Life” as Dylan once sung.

I have discovered something in me that has become very important. Actually, it was important as it lay dormant but I was too much of a knucklehead to capture it or to really know.

I have always been an artist. A poet mostly, writing in notebooks, back of envelopes, and later when I got smarter about it, my own sketchbooks crafted from card stock and the binder rings Staples will supply for next to nothing.

My poetry site is here.

But since my efforts gradually evolved into the expressions of emotion on the keyboard, the music has been the dominant force. I plan to forge ahead and make it count for Purpose. Please go to the links provided on the songs and listen. It makes me feel better to know that someone else enjoys something I could both love and return.

I have been “serious” about this work since mid 2010. In my Bio off to the left, I explain a bit more about how my Life affected this artistic enterprise but in the welcoming of guests, that would be a bit extraneous.

My albums/CDs/media files are arranged below in the order they were produced. All the music is either original, or original takes from traditional numbers. I intend to get better. I hope I get better. The pages on the albums give some written merit to the effort.

Each CD image is linked to my site where these CDs and the songs are available for purchase.

Part of the reason for this new page (as of 2/14/13), is to announce my entry into songwriting. The last CD, “Sign of the Times” will house original tunes where I have buckled into the HUGE task of penning to the melodies my own fatal poetry…thus, a song and, I hope, a story. My goal in the coming weeks & months is to complete 10-12 numbers, working on established melodies (mostly) and finding a bit of myself, a lot of you and some of what we all share.

I look forward to performing these songs this summer. Dates, times and places to be discovered. Thanks for listening.

All songs, lyrics and art work exist under copyright protection© by Joseph Olschner