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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13 songs
2016
A Single Tear
A ballad about all the things two people do not say to each other, and how a single tear can end up carrying all of it. The restraint is what makes it hit.
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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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2012
I Don't Know
A song about the baffling pull of someone who keeps slipping away and coming back. It captures the weary tenderness of a relationship that never quite settles but never quite ends.
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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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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
Let's Remember to Forget
A rueful song about a love affair caught in its own repetition. The title says everything: this is not about forgetting, but about trying to will memory and desire into silence for one more night.
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December 9, 2024
I Know One Thing
About working through variations on not knowing — what she wants, where she goes at night, what she's thinking — until the refrain arrives at the one thing the narrator can state plainly. Plain-spoken and...
December 23, 2024
Edge of Night
A haunted breakup song that drifts from private hurt into a larger question about whether real feeling ever held. Its images of empty halls, cobwebs, and lingering debris give it the feel of grief after the...
Undated
Need
A song about seeing clearly what someone needs while they pretend otherwise. Its charm comes from how comfortably it balances wit with real feeling.
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 31, 2025
In Our Hands
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...