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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23 songs
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.".
Rough Working Demo
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.
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...
Rough Working Demo
Video
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.
Rough Working Demo
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...
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.
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...
Rough Working Demo
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...
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....
Rough Working Demo
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.
Rough Working Demo
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.
Rough Working Demo
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...
Rough Working Demo
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.
Rough Working Demo
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.
Rough Working Demo
Video
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.
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:...
Rough Working Demo
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...
Rough Working Demo
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.
Rough Working Demo
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,...
Rough Working Demo
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...
Rough Working Demo
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....
Rough Working Demo
Video
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...
