10 songs
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.
2010
A reflective love song that looks back on intimacy through images of mirrors, glass, and fracture. It carries the ache of hindsight, as though understanding has arrived only after the damage was done.
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...
2017
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...
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.
2008
A New Year's song for anyone who has tried to squeeze hope out of one more late-night promise. It balances weariness and resolve, treating the wish to begin again as both fragile and necessary.
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.
2016
A winter solstice song, drawing on the Arthurian legend of the Green Knight. The green man represents the necessity of darkness before light, and the narrator integrates the lesson: wearing a bit of green as a...
December 24, 2024
A sharply observed group portrait, affectionate and mocking at once, of older performers and personalities sharing a stage. Beneath the satire is real fellowship: a recognition that everyone in the room is...
2016
A song about a friendship too old and deep to explain. It trusts the bond more than the conscious mind that tries to name it.
