I then did a duel for a couple of years with Dan Damron, but this didn't seem to be going anywhere, so in 1979 I moved back to BC, Cranbrook to be exact and started an auto restoration business. The old bug bit me again in 1984 and I recorded "It Only Took You Once to Say Goodbye", in Calgary at Bruce Thompson's studio. I couldn't seem to get the sound I was looking for so I never did much with it. It took me another time this time in Nashville and Joebob Branhill producing. It was 1988 and I got four songs out of the session. I released "Burning Up Memories" on "Barracuda" label out of Nashville, it was distributed by "Inde Bullet" out of Tyler Texas. It seemed to do quite well in some areas, reaching #9 on their charts. I followed that with "The Last Cowboy Song". which didn't do so well. We didn't seem to be getting much out of Canada so I decided to try "Jennie Records" for my next single which comes from my 1990 Nashville session. I had gotten six new songs this time, I figured the most commercial one was "Driftin". We got some response but at that time radio was no longer in 45RPM records, everything went CD overnight, so did Ross Allen and Jennie Records. 

Then on November 8th, 1991 I suffered a major heart attack and for the next year I did nothing but try and get well. While I was recuperating I wrote several Christian Country songs and as soon as I was able, I was back in the studio recording, I didn't have any budget, but I got the best players I could find and produced it myself in a small studio in Langley, BC the name of the album is "Heaven Bent" and I'm very proud of it. This album has brought a lot of happiness to some people. and so with the help of my oldest son Lance and his wife, Toni-Anne, we started booking appearances in shopping malls all over Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. I would sell my music to shoppers and donate the profit after expenses to the BC Yukon Heart and Stoke Foundation. Being there and performing live seemed to work quite wiell. We did this for about 18 months. The Heart and Stroke Foundation seemed to appreciate our efforts and we did manage to raise some money for them. We then decided to expand into more provinces so our 1995 tour consisted of 21 malls spread through BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. I thought if I could make the '95 tour work I would try an "Across Canada Tour," and maybe get some other entertainers involved. I made another trip to Nashville and with Joebob Barnhill recorded another four songs with "Heartsent Country Jubilee" being the title song for a 15 song CD put together just for the Heart and Stroke project, although radio stations were supplied with the CD and an expanatory letter detailing what we were trying to do, we couldn't gain their support. Expenses became higher than we had projected and the tour ended up in the red.

So since that time I have been concentrating on writing more gospel songs and doing some church work. I now have 3 gospel albums, and still picking and singing regularly.