2017
Confession
A lusty, half-comic confession song that piles appetite on appetite until desire becomes the whole joke. It is playful and knowingly excessive, closer to a grin than a scandal.
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13 songs
2015
When it All Falls Down
A song built from parallel questions about what comfort might look like when everything falls apart. It asks for company, song, and touch without pretending any of them will fix the collapse.
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2013
John Prine Song
An affectionate tribute to the plainspoken songwriting tradition John Prine made his own, where humor and heartbreak sit side by side. The song celebrates the way simple language, well placed, can carry...
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2010
Sweet Roll
A 12-bar blues song with stops, built as an extended food metaphor for desire and companionship. The bridge turns practical: "together we will go exploring, variations on our homemade recipe." Rollicking,...
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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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2008
Tossing and Burning
A song of yearning so intense it borders on torment. What makes it memorable is not just the desire itself, but the loneliness of wanting to be seen by someone who may not even know you are there.
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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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September 9, 2018
I'm Alive
A plainspoken song that catalogs the moments, sights, and seasons that make being alive feel undeniable. It finds meaning in attention rather than proclamation.
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2010
Let it Flow
An exuberant song about opening up to the world and letting joy rush in. What begins with windows and sunlight widens into something freer and more bodily, as if release itself were the point.
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March 10, 2018
Many Happy Returns
A birthday song written with warmth rather than fuss. It offers goodwill in the simplest possible form and trusts that simplicity to carry the feeling.
2014
We Will Survive
A song of cautious hope that refuses easy specifics. It lets uncertainty stay in the room while still insisting on endurance.
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2013
Ninety-Nine
A political song about collective resistance, built from paired opposites and crowd-sized images. Its refrain is plain and insistent: we can take it back.
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