Meet the Band
Being best friends makes our band even better!
Meet the Band
Being best friends makes our band even better!
Lee FIske - Guitar, Lead Vocals & Songwriter
Lee is our lead vocalist and lead guitarist and can play any instrument he picks up (we all hate him just a little). He and Jacki live outside of Hesperus, Colorado for the summer months and in Brenda, Arizona for the winter. He is also our preacher, teacher, and handy man.
Del Craddock - Banjo & Harmonica
Del, our resident eclectic, has recently picked up several new interests, including raising Scottish Highland Cows and New Zealand Kunekune Pigs, managing rental cabins, maintaining a large salt-water reef tank and collecting British air rifles. He is our banjo player.
Sandy Burnett - Violin
Sandy plays the violin. She comes from a musically gifted family and is so talented even the deer come out to hear her play. Her husband, Bob, is our most loyal fan!
Jacki Fiske - Guitar, Lead Vocals, and Harmony
Jacki is our taskmaster, but she does it with a lot of laughter. She plays 12-string guitar and mandoline. She makes excellent Kombucha and is our resident expert on all things healthy. She is a loving mother and grandmother of ten! Lee and Jacki are in their fourth decade of marriage.
Rebecca Craddock - Mandolin. Lead Vocals and Harmony
Rebecca, to the surprise of her husband, suggested giving up city life for a five-hundred acre remote ranch in the Rockies. Her favorite moments are taking care of her husband, daughters and grandchildren. She loves hot drinks on the porch. She is our bassist and also plays mandoline.
Rebecca, Jacki, Lee and Del
We’re getting ready to play for a dance in Arizona. We added a drummer, Ron Kronig, who is also Sandy’s son.
A friend in Vallecito, Colorado lent us her home for a recording session. It is beautiful!
High Desert Ayre in Brenda, Arizona
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ORIGINAL & cover SONGS
Inspirational Songs
Did It Have to Be a Cross* High Desert Ayre - Max Lucado and Lee Fiske
Goodbye to Me* High Desert Ayre
The Lantern on the Wagon High Desert Ayre
Sing Me Back Home High Desert Ayre
The Singer* High Desert Ayre
This World is Not My Home High Desert Ayre
We offer our songs as a download at no cost to you. Please enjoy!
(*denotes original music and lyrics by High Desert Ayre)
Song Catalog
Song Catalog
High Desert Ayre's Originals and Covers
*denotes original music and lyrics
Act Naturally
All I Have to do is Dream
All My Lovin’
Am I Losing You
Amarillo By Morning
Annie’s Song
Bad Day's End* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, Music by Lee Fiske)
Back Home Again
Battle of New Orleans
Blackberry Blossom
Blue
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Blue Moon
Bramble and the Rose
Bury Me
Can’t Buy Me Love
Chiseled in Stone
Colorado
Could I Have this Dance
Country Roads
Cotton Eyed Joe
Crazy Arms
Crying My Heart Out Over You
Daddy’s Hands
Dark Hollow
Dear Someone
Deep Water
Detour
Devil Woman
Don’t Be Cruel
Don’t Rock the Jukebox
Fake Moonbeams* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Fly Me to the Moon
Folsom Prison Blues
For Ever and Ever, Amen
Forever Love* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
For Baby
Four Strong Winds
From a Jack to a King
Get Together
God Bless the USA
Gone Fishing
Good-by to Me* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Go Rest High on that Mountain
Grandma’s Feather Bed
Grandpa, Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days
Heartbreak* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Heart Thief* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
How Mountain Girls Can Love
I Can See Clearly Now
I Can’t Stop Loving You
I Don’t Know Why
I Just Want to Dance With You
I Think About You
I Won’t Take Less Than Your Love
I Wouldn’t Want to Live
If I Could Make a Living Out of Loving You
If I Didn’t Have You
If Tomorrow Never Comes
I’ll Step Aside
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
In My Life
In This Life
Is It Still Over
I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could
Jambalaya
Land of Enchantment
Last Word in Lonesome is Me
Leavin’g on a Jet Plane
Life’s Highway
Little Things
Live Like You’re Dying
Lonely One* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
Long Black Veil
Look At Us
Love, Me
Love's Gonna Live Here
Lucky Old Colorado
Moonglow
Moon Over Water* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, arranged by Lee Fiske)
No Tears
Old Chunk of Coal
One More Last Chance
Outhouse Basement* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
Perhaps Love
Prayers of a New Baby* (lyrics by Rebecca Craddock, music by Lee Fiske)
Proud Mary
Rank Stranger
Red River Valley
Release* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Riding Down the Canyon
Ring of Fire
Rose of San Antone
Sea of Heartbreak
Sentimental Journey
Shenandoah
Sing Me Back Home
Singer* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Sold
Something That We Do
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Spend My Time
Star Spangled Banner
Still Dancing* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
Stray Dogs and Alley Cats
Summertime
Sunrise, Sunset
Swinging Doors
Things Change
Three Wooden Crosses
Together* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Turning Off a Memory
Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star
Wabash Canon Ball
Walking After Midnight
Walking Dream
Walk Through This World With Me
Wanderin' Woman* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
Watermelon Crawl
The Wayward Wind
Welcome to My World
When Will I Be Loved
When You Say Nothing At All
White Cliffs of Dover
WWII Medley (arranged by Lee Fiske)
You Gotta Smile
You Raise Me Up
You Were Always on my Mind
High Desert Ayre's Inspirational Song List
*denotes original music and lyrics
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace/My Chains Are Gone
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
Beneath the Cross of Jesus
A Bible and a Belt
The Blood That Stained the Old Rugged Cross
Change My Heart, Oh, God
Come Let Us Worship and Bow Down/He is Lord
Commission
Did it Have to be a Cross* (lyrics by Max Lucado, music by Lee Fiske)
Draw Me Close to You
Each Step I Take
Each Step of the Way
Earth Holds No Treasure
El Shaddai
Emmanuel* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Everybody Will Be Happy Over There
Face to Face
Farther Along
Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer
Friends
Glory-Land Way
God Holds the Future in His Hands
God Shall Wipe Away All Tears
God’s Promise
Go Rest High on that Mountain
Heart of Worship
He’s My King
Hillbilly Graham
Hold to God’s Unchanging Hand
Holy God* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Holy, Holy, Holy
How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
How Great Thou Art
I Can Only Imagine
I Come to the Garden Alone
I Want You
I’d Rather Be an Old Time Christian
I’ll Fly Away
I Saw the Light
I Slowed Down* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
It is Well With My Soul
Knowing You’ll Be There
The Lantern on the Wagon
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
The Lighthouse
Lone Tree* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
Lord, I Care Not for Riches
The Lord of the Dance
Lord, I’m Coming Home
Mansion Over the Hilltop
Mary, Did You Know
The Master’s Touch* (lyrics by Marie Atwood, music by Lee Fiske)
Moving Day* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
My Eyes Are Dry
No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus
No Tears
No Tears in Heaven
The Old Rugged Cross
On Bended Knee
Open the Eyes of My Heart
O They Tell Me of a Home
Peace in the Valley
Precious Memories
Reason to Sing* (lyrics and music by Lee Fiske)
Scars in Heaven
Searching
Sing to Me of Heaven
Softly and Tenderly
Standing on the Promises
Sweet By and By
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Sweet Little Jesus Boy
Sweet, Sweet Spirit
This World is not My Home
Three Wooden Crosses
Thy Word
‘Til the Storm Passes By
Travel Life’s Path With a Smile
Victory in Jesus-Beyond the Gates mash-up (arranged by Lee Fiske)
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
When All of God’s Singers Get Home
When I Wake Up
Where the Gates Swing Outward Never
Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown
Wine into Water
Booking
Booking
Available for:
Weddings and Receptions
Restaurants
Family Reunions
Festivals
Birthday Parties
Events
Senior Centers
Churches
Other things you can dream up
Contact:
Jacki Fiske
jackifiske@rocketmail.com or
leefiske@gmail.com