About

Within this website I've collected music, images, and a travel blog with details and thoughts about life on the road.  My hope is that you'll find something here that will entertain you or brighten your day a little.

I invite you to check back here periodically as I will be adding many more songs that I have recorded, pictures of our travels and of music events, and updates to my travel blog as Diane and I experience more of this beautiful country and the folks who live here. 

Thanks for checking my website out,

John Jump

Featured Song

I am featuring this song on my website because it is very special to me.  I sincerely hope you can spend a moment to listen to it.  I believe you'll enjoy it and there's a little story behind it I'd like to share with you...

It came to me as a dream one night.  In my dream I visualized a saddened prisoner, sitting alone in their cell.  They cannot see a way out of their prison.   

Staring at the hard and bare walls for a time he begins to visualize a window in their mind's eye.   He sees a small bluebird, perched high on a limb on the edge of the green forest canopy. Freedom awaits on her wings as the Sun warms her face and a gentle breeze ruffles her feathers.  Nothing and no one restrain her.

I awoke and immediately wrote down words to describe the vision I had dreamt.  As I sat alone at the little wooden table in our kitchen that dawn, I felt a great release as I put the words to paper... 

as if I must get this vision, these words, and the music finished before I do anything else. 

Among all the songs I have written over the years, "Little Blue, The Prisoner's Dream" is one of the most memorable and meaningful to me.  I feel that it is a great gift given me and I truly hope the song gives you a little smile and just maybe a vision of your own today.

Thank you so much for listening!

John