I guess the beginning of "Love Won Out" began 20 years ago when I found myself on the Tijuana Trolley going to Mexico to get drugs for my ailing brother. He had aids and certain medicine was not yet approved in the States so it was off to "TJ" to bring them back into our country for my "Bro". Coming back I was stopped at the border and asked if I had bought anything while in Mexico. I explained what I purchased and after having to say that the drugs were for me and not him I was allowed to pass.

Unfortunately it was too late for my Brother who died a few months later from AIDS. I knew someday I would channel my feelings over his death into something artistic. I just wasn't sure how or when.

So fast forward ahead twenty years and I'm on a plane on my way to the UK for my first European Tour. I had been on a writing frenzy over the last two years and had some good success but I hadn't been able to write a song about my brother, try as I may. As I was reading Newsweek on the flight I came to the last page and famed writer Anna Quindlen had written a "Pro Gay Marriage" essay entitled "Love Won Out". Well the song wrote itself from there. The lyrics flowed from my pen to the back of an envelope I was carrying and before we landed I had the song I'd always wanted to write for my brother and an anthem for legal Gay Unions. And when recorded it strangely came out sounding like Bonnie Raitt meets the Allman Bros. or so I'm told. "Don't ask don't tell, can go to Hell, 'cause Love Won Out!".