I recently reconnected with some songwriters I used to hang out with way back in the early '90s when I was first starting out. I reminded one of them of a studio demo I had made of a song we had co-written together. I promised him a copy, but I soon discovered that I had failed to copy the song onto my computer, which I had done with me other demos.

I still  had a stack of old cassette tapes I have been saving, so I started searching through them for this demo. Not only did I eventually find it, but I also found some other old songs that I'm still proud of. One of them is a studio recording of the very first song I ever wrote. 

I had long possessed a desire to write songs, but I didn't think I knew how. One day, when I was 28 years old, I was on the phone with my older brother, who had been songwriting since our high school days. He was telling me about a new one he'd written, and I told him that I wished I could write songs. He replied, “Well, just write one!”. That's when I realized that all I had to do was make a decision to write and then to sit down and do it. But first, what to write about? 

At the time, I was in my final semester as an MBA student at The Wharton School. At this time, all the students in a frenzy to find employment, and it seemed that every conversation involved talk of each other's “job search”. I decided to write a satire on this. 

I picked up my guitar and started strumming a simple 3-chord blues/rock progression. I came up with the words, sung them along to the progression, and before long, I had written “Job Search Blues”. 

Many songwriters I know are ashamed of their first songs, but I'm proud of how mine came out, and I want to share it with you. You can listen below. You can also download it from my music page.  

I hope you will enjoy it!