This song was a lot of fun to do, but took a long time for me to get the drums in as good a shape as I could. The song is about two people in different places in the same relationship. Maybe this is always true? Anyway, I like the heavy feel of this and…
Read more →I can only do so many songs before I need to return to the blues, or in this case, sort of rocked up blues. This song is about no matter how many experiences we have or how many times we see something, it’s still a new experience and it introduces something new every time. To…
Read more →While I have been an active musician my entire life, music has not always been on the front burner. I made a choice long ago to pursue a career, raise a family, and all that sort of thing, while still performing and recording. Now, I spend a good part of each day completely focused on…
Read more →This instrumental tries to convey the experience of walking at night in the dark. I wanted to get that slightly hurried step, the sounds you might be straining to hear, and just the partly scary, partly stimulating side of the experience. For blind people, this is every walk. The song is available on all streaming…
Read more →A friend told me about a relative who was essentially addicted to watching a certain news network. This network conveys a world of violence, conspiracies, and spreads general misinformation. This person became clinically anxious and depressed, needing therapy but not doing well. So this song is about that phenomenon, how people spread fear and suspicion…
Read more →I like writing songs about historical events and places, particularly around where I live in Minnesota. Way out in Lake Superior stands Isle Royale, now a national park. Native people mined copper there since 3000 BCE. Much more recently, white settlers created mines, one of them being the Saginaw mine. It did not last long,…
Read more →I wrote this song about a real experience. A friend and I, when we were teens, took a rubber raft to a swollen stream after a huge thunderstorm. We could float through this pretty well, but it joined a much bigger stream or small river, and we could not control the raft. We managed to bail…
Read more →This is a blues song with I suppose a bit of a Southern rock riff going through it. It’s about a guy who said the wrong thing and is a little more than half hearted trying to make up for it. It was all his fault, after all. Anyway, I had fun writing the words…
Read more →Young men and boys are in trouble. Lots of statistics back this up. Compared to boys and young men of the past, fewer are seeking any kind of higher education, fewer have left their parent’s homes by their 30s, and fewer have partners. Some of these disaffected guys are easy fodder for extremist groups on…
Read more →I’ve mentioned this over and over I suppose on my website or in other places, but I am blind. Not lifelong, but rather a fairly recent phenomenon. It’s hard not to write songs about this, as it is kind of a life changer, but I wanted to write a song that is a bit weird…
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