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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...