27 songs
March 25, 2022
A song built on two versions of the same musical figure — one quiet and one rocking — that alternate through the song. The narrator wants what he can't have, knows it, and the arrangement enacts the...
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...
2016
A blues-rock song that builds from a quiet minor verse to a fuller declaration. The melody climbs and doesn't fully resolve.
2014
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...
2011
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.
2008
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.
2012
A breakup song written from the stunned quiet after long companionship suddenly ends. Instead of big declarations, it relies on small physical details, rain, cold, empty woods, to show how abandonment settles...
2011
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.
July 15, 2018
A blues song addressed to marijuana as a companion when other comforts have failed. Its humor never quite hides the loneliness underneath.
2016
A tender song of absence and longing, carried by the feeling that memory can make the whole world echo with one missing person. Its sadness is direct but never heavy-handed, more ache than despair.
2014
A plainspoken outsider's song tracing a sense of not fitting in from childhood through adulthood. Its power comes from how directly it speaks: no grand theory, just a lifetime of knowing the world has always...
May 7, 2021
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...
2016
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.
February 15, 2020
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.
2010
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...
March 25, 2026
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.
March 31, 2025
A banjo song about two people who have been circling each other for too long. The first verse can't remember what to say; the second sees that she's been ready; the third admits they could both be lonely and...
