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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51 songs
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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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.
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...
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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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...
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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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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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...