I will promote one of my own songs

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Vanny and DJ have helped me post a bunch of songs to YouTube. Some are my own, and some are covers of others' songs. Some feature me on all instruments (though the miracle of overdubbing), and some feature one of the bands I play in, the Diablo Rhythm Wranglers. We haven't posted anything recently, though we're starting work on a lullabye that I recorded after hearing one of the kids I work with singing it. It will probably be a month before that one sees the light of day on YouTube. Here is the first song I ever recorded for Vanny and DJ. It is about a relationship falling apart. I used the metaphor of a moth dying in the flame of a candle because that's what happened the night I wrote it. I was reading and grading papers and watching a moth get sucked into the vortex of my candle flame. I wrote the song with a particular bluegrass band in mind (I never perform it), but they broke up before they could do anything with it. The major shortcoming is that you have to look at my ugly mug for the whole song. This one was put out there before we started using images of the beauty of Northern California for our songs. I hope you enjoy it. Many of you have seen it. If you haven't, leave a nice comment (if you can) and sign up (subscribe to?) for our "watch list," or whatever it's called.