MARK THACKER
Singer/Songwriter
MY SONGS>
Three and one half hours on the road will get you to Fort Wayne, Indiana from Chillicothe, Ohio as long as you don't stop at the Tanger Outlets in Jeffersonville. My wife, Julie and I have made the trip many times because that is the home of our good friends Jeff and Sheryl McDonald. Jeff and Sher have also made the trip from FW to Chilli to visit. On one trip Jeff was found on our front porch swing with a guitar, enjoying a Spring afternoon, looking across the street toward the brick facade that hides the less attractive inner workings of the paper mill, its tall red and white smokestack high above the Scioto River Valley . He began work on what would become the song Over On Paint Street. Blending fact and fiction, the song touches on a few local landmarks, including the thirty-two steps leading up the hill to the porch where Jeff was "Sitting on the front porch, makin' up songs..." Sung by Jeff.
Many years ago, I heard a song and knew I had to learn it. I did and I have sung it too many times to count. It was written by Rick Barnes, of Chillicothe, and is one my all-time favorites. Jeff and I performed it as a duet.
New Way : A song I wrote several years ago for my wife, Julie, on one of our wedding anniversaries...an attempt to find a new way to say "I love you".
Sometimes people get "above their raising" and need to be reminded where they came from and how they got where they are. Cream rises to the top, but somewhere in the scheme of things, first, there was a cow.
These are songs from "Standing By My Dreams", the 2018 album
by Jeff McDonald and me.
Paint It Blue :
written by Stacey Skaggs and Frankie Thacker
Oh,...By the way...Frankie's my son.
Or, as it goes, here in Chillicothe...
I'm "Frankie Thacker's dad".
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Flipflops ~ a pencil sketch by Mark Thacker
Some tunes from my latest project with Jeff McDonald, titled "Glidin' By"
Some Demos
Nancy. A guitar instrumental I played, start to finish, for the first time, on the day of the funeral of my daughter, Nancy Helen, age 7 months.
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