July 8, 2026
Still Here
A grief song set inside a shared house: the voice from the overstuffed chair, the hand reached for at night, doors that open onto memories. Presence in absence, gently insisted on — this house ain't really...
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April 29, 2026
What's this All About
A blues-soul song about waiting and confusion in a relationship. The narrator has been patient, the partner absent, and the refrain asks the most direct possible question. Three verses approach the same...
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April 28, 2026
Why Can't You Be Nice
A lighthearted blues complaint from a man who's sure of his own heart and baffled by hers — "sometimes it's warmer, sometimes it's torture." The verses walk the line between plea and accusation until the last...
March 27, 2026
Love Ain't Lovin' Me Back
A folk song, about giving love and not having it returned. The verse structure is plain — three lines building a situation, resolved in the refrain. The final verse turns the question: could this time be...
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March 25, 2026
Always Mine
A tender, complicated love song about the part of another person that remains within us even when life refuses permanence. It is less a claim of possession than an acknowledgment that deep feeling leaves a...
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March 25, 2026
Evil is Out Walking
A song built on the traditional doubled-line verse structure. The verses accumulate: evil is talking, scheming, grasping, using a whippin' boy, fooling frightened minds. The refrain names the target without...
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March 25, 2026
The Blues Have Got Me
A song about succumbing to sorrow even while trying to name it, joke with it, and sing through it. The title tells the truth up front and lets the verses live inside it.
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March 22, 2026
Siren
A song about a woman who might be a hallucination or might be real, whose hair floats and whose siren song the narrator can't stop hearing. The refrain — "oh, I want to see me in your eyes" — is the most...
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March 2, 2026
Hey Baby
A plainspoken song, returning to a traditional form: a man who wants to walk a woman home, worried she's still looking for someone else. The outro slows to the same four chords.
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February 25, 2026
Ballad for the ICE Man
A folk-blues structured as a community's collective voice speaking directly to immigration enforcement. The verses escalate from neighborhood to schools, from refusal to warning. The final line repeats slowly,...
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September 30, 2025
Headin' North
A blues with a jam structure that opens up in performance. The lyric is about leaving a place that can no longer be saved — a town, a country, a moment — with the anger of someone who saw it coming and...
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May 18, 2025
A Thin Veneer
A folk song, about watching someone reveal themselves as something they didn't appear to be. The verses track from initial perception to current behavior to the question of how it will be viewed by history....
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May 3, 2025
Ain't No Slave
A song with a dark, resonant pulse, written as a direct response to the traditional spiritual "Ain't No Grave." The theological swap is explicit: no maker, no afterlife, no submission. The lyric is as plain...
May 3, 2025
Winter of Hate
A folk song, about the Boomer generation's transformation from Aquarian idealism to fearful authoritarianism. The verses describe the movement — tired of the establishment, now become the establishment,...
March 31, 2025
In Our Hands
A banjo song about two people who have been circling each other for too long. The first verse can't remember what to say; the second sees that she's been ready; the third admits they could both be lonely and...
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March 25, 2025
Can of Worms
A satirical folk song that turns its attention to public figures and the stories that gather around them. It lets the details speak for themselves, allowing the tone to shift between humor and unease without...
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March 9, 2025
Liberty
A political song spoken in the voice of Liberty herself, protesting the way her image has been turned against the people she was meant to welcome. Its anger is sharpened by grief for the promise being betrayed.
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January 1, 2025
New Years Day, 2025
A New Year's Day reckoning that catalogs crisis after crisis without softening any of it. The repeated questions at the center are as plain as they are hard to answer.
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December 24, 2024
Choir of the Aged
A sharply observed group portrait, affectionate and mocking at once, of older performers and personalities sharing a stage. Beneath the satire is real fellowship: a recognition that everyone in the room is...
December 24, 2024
Let's Do It
A philosophical song about building meaning without supernatural framework. The verses catalog what doesn't exist; the refrain proposes alternatives — find a cosmic voice, make a joyful noise, make it on our...
December 23, 2024
Edge of Night
A haunted breakup song that drifts from private hurt into a larger question about whether real feeling ever held. Its images of empty halls, cobwebs, and lingering debris give it the feel of grief after the...
December 23, 2024
Sodom Rd #87
A searching song about freedom, knowledge, and the pull of what lies beyond the known world. The title keeps one foot in a real place, but the feeling is larger: restlessness, curiosity, and the urge to break...
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December 17, 2024
I Know What I Know
A political song, working through the full catalog of conspiracy theory and authoritarian propaganda — chemtrails, birtherism, QAnon, end-times belief — from the inside. The refrain identifies the emotional...
December 9, 2024
I Know One Thing
About working through variations on not knowing — what she wants, where she goes at night, what she's thinking — until the refrain arrives at the one thing the narrator can state plainly. Plain-spoken and...
December 3, 2024
Because of You
A short song built on superlatives — "bluer than blue, newer than new" — repeated with different color sets through four verses. The bridge is a simple chord pattern that lets the feeling breathe. The feeling...
December 3, 2024
No More
A three-string stripped-down accompaniment song, built on the simplest possible structure: three-note musical figures and a repeating pattern. The five verses catalog refusals — no more weepin', hatin', lyin'...
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June 8, 2024
Desolate Blue
A folk song about the specific flatness of depression — not wanting to die, not feeling alive, going through motions without the feeling that should accompany them. Two verses, a plain refrain: "drownin' in...
April 20, 2024
I Don't Get It
A furious song of disbelief aimed at people who keep mistaking cruelty, fraud, and manipulation for strength. Its anger is sharp, but it never fully gives up hope that those being used might still wake up.
March 2, 2024
Now It's Gone
A folk song about the erosion of rights, norms, and freedoms, addressed in turn to brother, father, mother, sister, comrade, and children. Each verse names a different category of loss. The refrain is the...
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March 1, 2024
Doesn't Your God Wonder
A song built as a direct challenge to divine certainty. The verses catalog specific Biblical incidents — the flood, bears sent to kill children, the Incarnation — with the plainness of someone reading a...
January 29, 2024
It's All About You
A warm invitation song that keeps widening its scope, moving from music into companionship and shared space. It carries a relaxed sense of welcome without pushing toward any single outcome.
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January 27, 2024
Old White Dudes
A folk song that attempts to hold two perspectives on aging white men — their own dread, and the structural-power analysis — in the same frame without resolving them. The last verse finds the real problem in...
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January 27, 2024
Smoldering Blue
A song, built entirely on the question of what to do with an attraction that probably shouldn't be followed. The musical figures — E6/11, Esus9, and two chromatic neighbor chords — create a sustained,...
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January 19, 2024
Waterfall
A love song The verses move between intimate physical detail and a philosophical claim: the universe becomes aware through us, and we belong at home in that awareness. The instrumental bridge repeats twice...
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January 11, 2024
Predator
A song about a specific type of political figure — hand grenade, dark-side clown, machine that consumes. The chord sequence borrows from Blaze Foley's "Oval Room," and the acknowledgment is in the notes. The...
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January 6, 2024
How Far
A searching song about the limits of consciousness and how they feel from the inside. The verses move between the mechanical and the cosmic — a heartbeat, Saturn's rings, a painted sky — and the refrain asks...
January 6, 2024
What's That Got to Do
A folk song arguing for bodily autonomy and the right to live without explaining yourself to others. Four verses speak from four different subject positions — transgender, dealing with an unwanted pregnancy,...
2024
That's Okay
A song, about watching someone you disagree with get what they wanted — and knowing the costs will be paid by others. The bridge admits the narrator's helplessness, and the refrain gives the only available...
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December 28, 2023
Earth Sign
A folk-jazz song, following a walk with a companion through the last cold days of a season. The turns — maj7 and m7 shapes throughout — give it a warm suspension. The bridge is wordless until the last time...
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December 3, 2023
Cassandra's Lullaby
A ballad, named for the Trojan prophetess who was never believed. The lyric moves from present calm — breezes, branches, quietude — to a contemplation of cosmic scale and personal smallness, and returns to the...
November 9, 2023
Love is What Love Survives
A song of love as ordeal, residue, and persistence. Rather than praising romance in easy terms, it treats love as something that burns, wounds, and endures — what remains after illusion and heat have passed.
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September 16, 2023
Let it Lie
A folk song about choosing not to examine what you believe, and what that choice costs. The verses address the subject directly but without contempt, and the final refrain offers an alternative: "you don't...
August 1, 2023
Stuck in Park
A song written from inside the disorientation of dementia, where the world no longer lines up with memory. Its plea for help is simple, devastating, and impossible to answer fully.
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July 2, 2023
Vivid Blue
A reflective song about watching the political moment from a porch, with a hummingbird and a pipe for company. The verses describe normalcy giving way to something harder to name, and the refrain arrives at...
January 19, 2023
Ring Around the Lizard
A song about the limbic system — the reptile brain — and how it limits reason, shapes belief, and gets exploited by media and religion. Five verses work through different contexts: church, news, social media....
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December 28, 2022
Samhain
A song, written for Halloween. The Gaelic framing — kith and kin in the wind, spirits of trees, the Otherworld just behind the eyes — is taken seriously rather than as costume. The first verse is repeated at...
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November 2, 2022
Mercy
A song, about a personified Mercy who comes to the garden, speaks voice that matters more than its content, and eventually leaves. The final verse is nearly a cappella, which was planned.
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October 26, 2022
Busted
A reflective song, built on a list of alliterative failures: "busted and bungled, cracked up and crumpled." The three verses escalate the disorder before the final refrain offers something that might be hope:...
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July 30, 2022
On Our Own
A philosophical song that moves through inherited religious language toward a bracing conclusion: no one is coming, and meaning is ours to make.
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May 21, 2022
Lose Your Love
A warm, unguarded love song about the fear of losing something precious just after finding it. Its simplicity is part of its charm: open-hearted, slightly breathless, and fully given over to devotion.
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May 6, 2022
Stranger Out of Time
A folk song, about being stranded by history — "a casualty of one of history's near rhymes." The walking verses and the plain refrain carry a Woody Guthrie-adjacent feel, and the narrator sounds more resigned...
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April 8, 2022
Don't You Ever Come Back
A song about a final break with someone who has been lying all along. The ending slows verse by verse to a near stop.
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March 25, 2022
Just Ain't Right
A song built on two versions of the same musical figure — one quiet and one rocking — that alternate through the song. The narrator wants what he can't have, knows it, and the arrangement enacts the...
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January 14, 2022
Relief
A meditative song about the stories people tell in order to survive fear, uncertainty, and the knowledge of mortality. Rather than dismissing those stories, it wonders how they can become part of what makes us...
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November 21, 2021
The Jay
A window-side meditation on a blue jay and the mystery of awareness itself. The bird becomes a way of asking what, exactly, is seeing and being seen.
July 4, 2021
So Damn Easy
A song about the creative process and how impossible it can feel from the inside. Its refrain catches the gap between how art looks and how it is made.
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May 7, 2021
WYSIWYG
A blues song played with a rough, homemade feel. Five verses, each taking the opening statement one degree further: I am what I am, what you see is all there is, I'm damaged to the core. The melodic fragments...
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April 10, 2021
Whisky and Ashes
A folk song, about lying on a couch and being unable to care, while the world outside has gone sideways. The last verse reaches for help with "this message bottle" and "a rescuer who needs a lot of rope.".
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January 14, 2021
Sandman
A philosophical song, built on a three-against-four rhythmic feel. The "sandman" is the false comfort of simple answers, and the bridge makes the counter-observation: "streaked with beauty, it reeks of...
January 6, 2021
Be With Me
A folk love song, moving through the hours of a day — morning grass, afternoon sun, evening stars, dark of night — with the same simple request at each turn. Four verses, one feeling, no complications.
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February 15, 2020
One Bite of Crazy
A song about the overwhelming scale of what has to be fixed, and the only available strategy: one piece at a time. Three chords, economical.
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October 19, 2019
I Don't Have To
A reflective song about being too far gone to try. The verses use a three-part structure — love you/want you/touch you but can't reach you — and the bridge acknowledges the other person's good intentions...
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May 26, 2019
Perdition Road
A blues-rock ballad about a path the narrator keeps walking despite knowing where it goes. The imagery is rural — a dog growling, a distant rumble, wood beginning to rot — and the final verse adds the most...
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May 19, 2019
This is How it Goes
A political song built as a rolling catalog of public types, false prophets, and ordinary people trying to get by while things decay around them. The refrain carries a tired fatalism, but the song itself still...
May 4, 2019
When Push Comes to Shove
A song about how reason yields to attraction despite every better intention. It knows exactly when principle gives way to the body.
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April 20, 2019
Annie Likes to Walk
A lullaby-like ballad that follows one woman's walks to the shore where the waves do what words cannot. It is gentle, patient, and a little heartbreaking.
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March 24, 2019
Persephone Unbound
A spring song of thaw and return, naming the season through images of water, birds, and first growth. The mythic frame gives its tenderness extra resonance.
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February 10, 2019
Reflection
A searching, introspective song about the divided self and the feeling of being watched from within. It moves from ordinary awareness into something more mysterious, then turns toward love, where the question...
2019
Callous Heat
A plainspoken song, about a woman who carries physical presence like a natural force. The description builds from specifics — boots, jeans, bedroom eyes — to a plain statement: she could blow your mind. The...
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September 30, 2018
Sands of Time
A folk song about time running out on a relationship and maybe on other things. The central image — each step dropping a grain into the sands of time — holds the verses together loosely, and the refrain asks...
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September 29, 2018
Deplorable
A blues song addressed directly to people the singer cannot understand. What gives it force is that the refrain is not only accusation but genuine bafflement.
September 22, 2018
Time
A dark political song about the collapse of norms and the narrowing of public life. Its urgency is sharpened by how little it needs to say.
September 9, 2018
I'm Alive
A plainspoken song that catalogs the moments, sights, and seasons that make being alive feel undeniable. It finds meaning in attention rather than proclamation.
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August 12, 2018
Barely Awake
A song about spending most of life half-awake to what matters. Its final question gives the whole piece its ache.
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July 15, 2018
Sweet Mary Jane
A blues song addressed to marijuana as a companion when other comforts have failed. Its humor never quite hides the loneliness underneath.
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June 8, 2018
Never Give it Up
A motivational song that keeps its message as plain as possible: hold on to what matters and do not surrender it. The directness is the point.
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2018
Ephemera
A philosophical reflective song about impermanence. The verses invite presence and then withdraw the ground: the warmth between us will grow cold, this momentary flash, the sound will fade. The bridge...
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March 10, 2018
Many Happy Returns
A birthday song written with warmth rather than fuss. It offers goodwill in the simplest possible form and trusts that simplicity to carry the feeling.
2017
Confession
A lusty, half-comic confession song that piles appetite on appetite until desire becomes the whole joke. It is playful and knowingly excessive, closer to a grin than a scandal.
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2017
Don't Be Blamin' Me
The song has been arranged for multiple instruments — open D six-string, open F four-string, and three-string stripped-down accompaniment. The lyric works through a catalog of possible causes before declining...
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2017
In Line
A folk song, built entirely on adverbs — "soberly, carefully, methodically" — stacked verse by verse into a portrait of submission and quiet desperation. The bridge is instrumental and arrives as relief. The...
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2017
No There There
A ballad about a relationship that almost became something real and never quite did. It borrows a famous phrase to describe an intimacy that never found solid ground.
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2017
Summer
A jazz-inflected folk song, built on a familiar, easy-moving shape. Three verses of summer sensory detail — golden, sapphire, ivory; distant, closer, right here — each closing with the recognition that...
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2017
Timeline
A philosophical song about history, fate, and the possibility that meaning appears only in passing. It questions everything while still listening for a voice in the noise.
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2017
Turned Around
A ballad about two people circling a truth they cannot quite say aloud. Its repeated turning around becomes both action and confession.
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2017
Wedding Blessing
A generous blessing song that mixes warmth, wit, and earnest hope. Instead of grand abstractions, it offers a life wish in human terms: love, freedom, self-knowledge, dependable friendship, and enough grace to...
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2016
A Single Tear
A ballad about all the things two people do not say to each other, and how a single tear can end up carrying all of it. The restraint is what makes it hit.
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2016
Blue in Bluegrass
A playful bluegrass song about adding blues sensibility to the genre. The argument is in the metaphors: "like moonshine booze," "it smokes clean and smooth." The whole thing is cheerful and undemanding, with...
2016
Bump and Scrape
A philosophical song, about the sparks and friction of human experience. The first verse is physical, the second cosmic, the third reflective. The bridge is instrumental. The closing verse is the most honest:...
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2016
Caroline
A summer-memory song held at a slight, wistful distance. It lingers over warmth, touch, and the way certain seasons stay suspended in the mind.
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2016
Comes the Flood
A slow, searching song about damage that may already be beyond repair. Its repeated refrain makes the recognition feel heavier each time it returns.
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2016
Creature Discomfort
A darkly comic song about media saturation, public cruelty, and the warped creature that collective fear can summon. The tone is satirical, but the unease underneath it is real.
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2016
Dear Comrade
A political song addressed to working people and the ways they are taught to misread their own hardship. Its argument is blunt because the stakes are.
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2016
Gawain's Night
A winter solstice song, drawing on the Arthurian legend of the Green Knight. The green man represents the necessity of darkness before light, and the narrator integrates the lesson: wearing a bit of green as a...
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2016
Home Again
A searching ballad about a long road traveled and a mountain that's always there in the mind. The lyric doesn't sentimentalize — "broken people, bodies, hearts and minds" is in there — but it finds a resting...
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2016
I Will Follow
A blues-rock song that builds from a quiet minor verse to a fuller declaration. The melody climbs and doesn't fully resolve.
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2016
It's Over
A bleak, matter-of-fact song about waking up to the feeling that something fundamental has already been lost. It is less melodrama than recognition, with humor used only to make the truth bearable.
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2016
Promises
A weary desert song about promises of deliverance that never quite arrive. Drawing on images of wandering, punishment, and the elusive land of milk and honey, it turns sacred language into a human story of...
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2016
Song for David
A tender song of absence and longing, carried by the feeling that memory can make the whole world echo with one missing person. Its sadness is direct but never heavy-handed, more ache than despair.
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2016
Spillway
A quiet philosophical song about being carried in the flow of time and existence — neither controlling it nor resisting it. The imagery is hydraulic throughout: tide, overflow, swept away.
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2016
The Man is Back in Town
A plainspoken political song, with a gallery of characters each responding differently to a new authoritarian presence. Jethro Bodine, Jihadi Jack, Martha Sue, the corner guy — each verse inhabits a type...
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2016
Trump Fucked Blues
A traditional blues song using the extended metaphor of something rotten brought into the house. The argument stays in the household image all the way through — the smell, the rot, the wood beginning to...
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2016
Undiscovered Country
A folk song built on Hamlet's phrase — the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns — and tracking decline through seasons of the soul. Eight verses, each ending on a different tag. Long,...
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2016
Way Deep
A song about a friendship too old and deep to explain. It trusts the bond more than the conscious mind that tries to name it.
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2016
Well, Well, Well
A song about holding steady while someone volatile threatens to leave again. Its shrugging refrain suggests the narrator has heard all this before.
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2016
Wish I Could
A folk-blues built on a single repeated wish that changes from verse to verse: lay down this load, walk the golden road, see the emerald valley, hear the silver bell toll. Five verses, one song.
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June 18, 2015
Cascumpec Rag
An instrumental, structured in three sections with a refrain between each. Named for a bay in Prince Edward Island.
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2015
A Walk in the Woods
A reflective walk through the woods that becomes a quiet hymn to attention, season by season. It finds renewal not in grand revelation but in the steady company of light, leaves, birds, bees, and breath.
2015
Absolution
A political and environmental reckoning that wonders whether absolution is even available anymore. Its repeated phrases give the song the sound of bad news already settling in.
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2015
All the Blue
A rain-soaked portrait of depression, moving from the stiffness of morning into a city where everyone seems lost in the same weather. Its sadness is personal, but it widens until the whole day feels tinted...
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2015
Dancin' 'Round It
A song built around a single repeating riff pattern on a four-string instrument. The lyric is about a relationship that won't commit — going through the motions of intimacy without the real thing — and the...
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2015
Easy
A searching song about the unruly act of making something true out of inner noise. It moves through fear, fatigue, and self-scrutiny toward rare moments when expression briefly feels effortless, even while the...
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2015
Glimpse of Freedom
A searching song about seeing freedom in the animals — chickens scratching, sheep behind wire, dogs in the sun — and finding the comparison disquieting. The bridge redefines freedom as not just taking what...
2015
Hegel Revisited
A searching ballad that uses dialectic as a way of thinking about conflict, from the intimate to the historical. What keeps it human is the sense that every grand argument still lands in lived experience.
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2015
I Really Dig the Blues
A loving, funny song about why the blues matters even to people who did not inherit its history firsthand. It comes across less as an argument than a confession of gratitude for a music that can still get hold...
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2015
Over and Out
A song built from directional opposites — in and out, over and under, up and down — until all that movement circles back to defeat. Its plain language gives the pattern real weight.
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2015
Slipping Away
A song about disorientation and the slow erosion of self-recognition. It speaks in clouded fragments, admitting only what it can: something is slipping away.
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2015
Stephanie
A rock song about an unattainable woman, working through the full knowledge that it can't be more than what it is. Each verse ends on a slow, repeated version of the situation statement: too far out of reach,...
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2015
When it All Falls Down
A song built from parallel questions about what comfort might look like when everything falls apart. It asks for company, song, and touch without pretending any of them will fix the collapse.
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2014
Best Intentions
A heartbreaking father-and-son song about love, regret, and the distance that can grow despite every good intention. Its sorrow is quiet and reflective, more full of watching and wondering than of accusation.
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2014
Bit of Plenty
A community song written to invite people in rather than keep them out. Its warmth, clarity, and directness are part of its purpose.
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2014
Dance with Me
A playful invitation song that keeps widening its welcome from dancing and singing to staying close all night. It is light on its feet and fully aware of its own charm.
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2014
Darkness
A traditional blues song about watching a relationship end from the outside, confirmed by a chance sighting. The weather and the watching are the whole story — standing out in the rain, not going inside. It...
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2014
I Ain't Ready
A plainspoken song about the approach of autumn as a metaphor for everything unfinished. The refrain softens its declaration into something closer to an admission.
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2014
I Don't Belong
A plainspoken outsider's song tracing a sense of not fitting in from childhood through adulthood. Its power comes from how directly it speaks: no grand theory, just a lifetime of knowing the world has always...
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2014
Land of Nod
A humorous blues song whose Biblical setup gives the deadpan that follows a slightly off-kilter frame. Its charm comes from how comfortably it balances wit with real feeling.
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2014
Palestine
A political song of grief and witness, refusing the idea that any faith can own a piece of earth by right. Its refrain is simple and direct because the sorrow it names already says enough.
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2014
Urizen Awake
A philosophical piece built on a complex instrumental architecture ), which is unusual enough to shape the whole sonic character. The title references William Blake's personification of cold reason, and the...
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2014
We Will Survive
A song of cautious hope that refuses easy specifics. It lets uncertainty stay in the room while still insisting on endurance.
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2013
A Way from Here
A song of exhaustion and emotional suffocation, written from the point where even rest and breath feel out of reach. It moves through weariness toward a distant hope of peace without pretending the way there...
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2013
John Prine Song
An affectionate tribute to the plainspoken songwriting tradition John Prine made his own, where humor and heartbreak sit side by side. The song celebrates the way simple language, well placed, can carry...
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2013
Ninety-Nine
A political song about collective resistance, built from paired opposites and crowd-sized images. Its refrain is plain and insistent: we can take it back.
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2013
Not So Blues
A 12-bar blues instrumental — no lyrics, just the standard I–IV–V progression with room for improvisation. Loose and good-humored, it sounds like a player enjoying the space between songs.
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2013
Not. Stopped. Again.
A blues-rock declaration of recovery after being held back by a person or circumstance. It looks backward just long enough to measure the distance already traveled.
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2012
Bushwhacking
A restless instrumental that lives up to its title, moving forward with a sense of momentum and uncertainty. It feels like pushing through rough country without a map and trusting motion itself to reveal the...
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2012
Desperate Times and Drastic Measures
A breakup song written from the stunned quiet after long companionship suddenly ends. Instead of big declarations, it relies on small physical details, rain, cold, empty woods, to show how abandonment settles...
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2012
I Don't Know
A song about the baffling pull of someone who keeps slipping away and coming back. It captures the weary tenderness of a relationship that never quite settles but never quite ends.
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2012
Stop the Train
A warning song about runaway systems, where profit and speed have long since outrun wisdom. The image of the train is simple and effective: once the machinery is in motion, the question is whether anyone can...
2012
Walking Away
A leaving song for the moment when endurance has run out. It doesn't dramatize escape so much as accept it, gathering its reasons verse by verse until walking away feels less like surrender than...
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2011
Hey Jesus, What the Fuck?
A blunt protest song aimed at violence done in the name of faith. Its anger is public rather than private, turning outrage into a rough, unvarnished chorus that refuses consolation.
2011
I Want You to Groove
A generous, open-hearted invitation to hear the world differently and come along for the ride. More than a seduction, it's a song about wanting to share a state of feeling, rhythm, and attention.
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2011
Just One
A compact blues song about the lonely arithmetic of heartbreak. Its central line does all the work: it takes two to make love work, but only one to carry the sorrow.
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2011
Let's Remember to Forget
A rueful song about a love affair caught in its own repetition. The title says everything: this is not about forgetting, but about trying to will memory and desire into silence for one more night.
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2011
Little Bit of Heaven
A sharp, memorable blues song about the high emotional cost of wanting someone who brings more trouble than grace. Its title line carries the song: a little heaven may be on offer, but hell is what lingers.
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2011
Simple
A plainspoken love song about wanting tenderness without games or pretense. What saves it from sentimentality is the final turn, where simplicity becomes less a slogan than a question asked of another person.
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2011
Uptime Blues
A song about modern fatigue and sensory overload — too much noise, too much input, and never enough peace. It turns the language of work and technology into a plea for quiet, intimacy, and a little room to...
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2010
Catch Up With You Later
A wry, easygoing song about loving someone whose pace is impossible to match. Rather than fighting it, the singer steps aside with a smile, letting the refrain carry equal parts affection, admiration, and...
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2010
Hour of the Wolf
A reflective love song that looks back on intimacy through images of mirrors, glass, and fracture. It carries the ache of hindsight, as though understanding has arrived only after the damage was done.
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2010
Let it Flow
An exuberant song about opening up to the world and letting joy rush in. What begins with windows and sunlight widens into something freer and more bodily, as if release itself were the point.
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2010
Stranger
A song of estrangement, sung from the point where alienation from friends, country, and public life starts to feel permanent. Even so, it keeps reaching toward a different destination, ending not in defeat but...
2010
Sweet Roll
A 12-bar blues song with stops, built as an extended food metaphor for desire and companionship. The bridge turns practical: "together we will go exploring, variations on our homemade recipe." Rollicking,...
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2010
The Turning
A reflective song about sensing change before anyone can name it. It asks whether history is turning, whether a reckoning is coming, and whether we are capable of recognizing it while still inside it.
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2010
Tweet This!
A comic complaint about distracted living in the age of screens. Beneath the jokes is a real frustration with how quickly attention is broken, and how much human conversation gets flattened in the process.
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2009
Take Me Mama
A late-night invitation song that builds its charm through repetition and insistence. Each verse raises the temperature slightly, but the real appeal is in the relaxed, unhurried confidence of the performance.
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2009
Water Sign
A love song steeped in water imagery, where desire, comfort, and surrender flow into one another. The repeated invitation to return to the water gives the whole piece a steady, immersive pull.
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2008
Don't Wanna Be Your Friend No More
A sly blues song about the difference between saying goodbye and actually letting go. What begins as a complaint gradually reveals its own entanglement, giving the song both its humor and its sting.
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2008
One More New Years
A New Year's song for anyone who has tried to squeeze hope out of one more late-night promise. It balances weariness and resolve, treating the wish to begin again as both fragile and necessary.
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2008
One More Shot
A song about a relationship where whiskey and heartache blur into the same habit. The singer knows the cycle is ruining him but keeps asking for one more round anyway, which is what gives the song its bite.
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2008
Tossing and Burning
A song of yearning so intense it borders on torment. What makes it memorable is not just the desire itself, but the loneliness of wanting to be seen by someone who may not even know you are there.
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2007
When
A searching song about belief, denial, and the stories people tell themselves to avoid what is in front of them. Rather than preaching, it keeps circling the same hard question until it becomes the song's...
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2007
Whoosh
A brief wordless instrumental that earns its title: a rush of motion through extended chord shapes (E6/11, Amadd2/E, chromatic neighbor chords) that create a suspended, passing atmosphere. More sensation than...
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1981
Sufi Poem
One of the oldest pieces in the catalog. The lyrics are a translation of a poem by the ninth-century Sufi mystic Dhu'l-Nun al-Misri, set to original music.
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1980
God Can Only Love and Grieve
One of the earliest songs in the catalog, this is a rain-soaked meditation on longing, sorrow, and the uneasy feeling of being joined to something larger than oneself. Its language moves between intimacy and...
1980
Too Late
An early apocalyptic lament that faces loss without softening it. The song piles up its reckonings one after another, but beneath the severity a human voice insists that what has happened must be named.
Undated
Need
A song about seeing clearly what someone needs while they pretend otherwise. Its charm comes from how comfortably it balances wit with real feeling.