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...
15 songs
May 26, 2019
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...
April 20, 2019
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.
2017
A ballad about two people circling a truth they cannot quite say aloud. Its repeated turning around becomes both action and confession.
2016
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.
2014
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.
2017
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.
2016
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...
2011
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.
2016
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.
2015
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.
2019
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...
2015
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.
May 21, 2022
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.