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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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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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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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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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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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...