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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9 songs
2017
Don't Be Blamin' Me
The song has been arranged for multiple instruments — open D six-string, open F four-string, and three-string stripped-down accompaniment. The lyric works through a catalog of possible causes before declining...
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2017
Turned Around
A ballad about two people circling a truth they cannot quite say aloud. Its repeated turning around becomes both action and confession.
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2017
No There There
A ballad about a relationship that almost became something real and never quite did. It borrows a famous phrase to describe an intimacy that never found solid ground.
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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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2017
In Line
A folk song, built entirely on adverbs — "soberly, carefully, methodically" — stacked verse by verse into a portrait of submission and quiet desperation. The bridge is instrumental and arrives as relief. The...
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2017
Timeline
A philosophical song about history, fate, and the possibility that meaning appears only in passing. It questions everything while still listening for a voice in the noise.
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2017
Wedding Blessing
A generous blessing song that mixes warmth, wit, and earnest hope. Instead of grand abstractions, it offers a life wish in human terms: love, freedom, self-knowledge, dependable friendship, and enough grace to...