NEW, NEW, NEW: Demos of my catalog online

I have started producing version of my songs in Suno. The process involves uploading my worktapes (mostly done by me, but some are co-writers singing and playing). These worktapes contain all of lyrics, the vocal melody, and the guitar or piano chords, picking, playing style, etc. If you set the “Audio Influence” slider in Suno on high, Suno reproduces your vocal melody and vocal “styling,” and the nature of your instrumental work quite faithfully—as a demo singer and demo players in a demo studio (in Nashville or elsewhere) would do. We rue the damage Suno and its ilk are doing to demo studios , players, and singers, but technological “progress” is unstoppable. 

The links below will take you to each album as they are uploaded. Accessing them is free—and feel free to provide the links to friends and family. As these are demos, we (me and co-writers) are not attempting to monetize them: just to make them available. Because AudioMack, the site that is hosting the tracks is free, they might throw some ads at you (kinda like Youtube). They are short, so hang in there!

Check out my latest project: Lyric Feedback Service. Get a comprehensive (~25 page) analysis of your lyric.

To hear my music, click here for direct links to popular streaming sites. Click on Amazon to buy.

Full audio Bio/Interview on Radio St.Pete.

Did you know I'm an author too? My novel, IMAGINE NEW ORLEANS—GONE was a finalist in the 2023 Claymore Awards.

Software & App Development: In addition to my work as a songwriter and author, I develop web applications and productivity tools. I am the founder of WikiRhymer.com, a rhyming dictionary that has been online since 2008. I am also the creator and developer of Google Workspace Marketplace add-ons, including App Script Saver™, Lyric Éditeur™, and Lyric Tools™. For support related to these applications, use the contact portal provided on this site.

My Story

Excerpted from an article by Kelly Greene of The Wall Street Journal

"In 2003, Tower moved to Nashville, in calamitous fashion: The moving truck broke down just outside New Orleans (on  Mardi Gras day, BTW), and Bud spent the first night in his Nashville apartment sleeping on the floor, with no electricity. He then broke the shower knob first thing the next morning and watched as water spewed all over his bathroom floor, which was directly over his landlady's apartment!"

"He stuck it out for six years and his persistence was gradually rewarded. A song he wrote in 2001, titled "We Are America," found its way onto a country music station in New York City and helped Mr. Tower raise $1,000 for the city's firefighters. More recently, two songs he co-wrote have hit the big time: "Red, White and Pink-Slip Blues," sung by Hank Williams Jr., was released as a single to country radio, and "God and Guns" was recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd." Some 50 other of Bud's songs have been cut by Indie artists. Many of those were released to radio as singles and several wound up in movies, TV, and direct to video projects."

 

See "Bio" for more.

"Hemingways"

Note: These are but a few of the 11 tracks on the album. Other titles:

  • A Love Like New Orleans (a love song to New Orleans)
  • No Saints In Hell (a travel-log through the underbelly of the French Quarter)
  • Billy Died Last Night (a reminder of the terrible toll of the opioid crisis)
  • Lost In The Wind (written with Drew Young, about Drew Young's young life)
  • Love Songs For My Wife (pretty self-explanatory!)
  • Whiskey Sunset (musings on Covid)

Click here to hear entire songs, or entire album, on popular streaming sites—or to purchase album.

New Shows

I host a Singer-Songwriter Open Mic

Every Wednesday night, 7 pm - 10 pm

Clearwater Brewing Company

1700 N. Ft. Harrison Ave, Clearwater FL 33755

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