Audio
Cocktails and Folk Songs
Blood Never Failed Me Yet
I misheard a song’s lyrics once, and thus ‘Blood Never Failed Me Yet’ was born.
City Boy
Cities make us jaded.
Howl
When I was young I shook my fist.
Dreams
Sometimes my lady can’t sleep, so I wrote this lullaby.
Empress
Inspired by Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto and magic mushrooms.
Fabric
A letter to my teenage self.
Fire in the Fields
Meditation and a burning world.
Land of Marshes
An ode to my mother’s hometown.
Let It Be Sunday
I love Sundays.
Click Your Heels
If Dorothy was without faith.
Mowing Lawns
Love, loss and fresh cut grass.
Mrs. Tanner
A reflection on death and gratitude.
Octopus Song
An anthropomorphized octopus that contemplates existence.
Old Money
Money’s presence in American politics is at the root.
Painted Pistols
Foregone conclusions lead only to a fall.
Rosie
An ode to my wife and the child we may one day have.
Sally Jane
When my lady was growing up, she had a friend named Sally.
Singapore Sling
My relationship with the bar industry is complicated.
The Enemy
Who is the enemy?
The Ocean
Some people are just larger than life.
Tibetan Bones
I had a bewildering experience in an ancient graveyard in Shangri-La, China.
Tourin’ the Thrush
There is a mystically beautiful painting by Thomas Wilmer Dewing called The Hermit Thrush. It inspired this song.
Virginia
About one of my favorite authors and poets, and her tragic death.
Windy Roads
I wrote this song on the back of a big fight with my partner.
Writer’s Block
Creativity for creativity’s sake.