9 songs
May 6, 2022
A folk song, about being stranded by history — "a casualty of one of history's near rhymes." The walking verses and the plain refrain carry a Woody Guthrie-adjacent feel, and the narrator sounds more resigned...
April 8, 2022
A song about a final break with someone who has been lying all along. The ending slows verse by verse to a near stop.
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...
November 2, 2022
A song, about a personified Mercy who comes to the garden, speaks voice that matters more than its content, and eventually leaves. The final verse is nearly a cappella, which was planned.
July 30, 2022
A philosophical song that moves through inherited religious language toward a bracing conclusion: no one is coming, and meaning is ours to make.
October 26, 2022
A reflective song, built on a list of alliterative failures: "busted and bungled, cracked up and crumpled." The three verses escalate the disorder before the final refrain offers something that might be hope:...
May 21, 2022
A warm, unguarded love song about the fear of losing something precious just after finding it. Its simplicity is part of its charm: open-hearted, slightly breathless, and fully given over to devotion.
January 14, 2022
A meditative song about the stories people tell in order to survive fear, uncertainty, and the knowledge of mortality. Rather than dismissing those stories, it wonders how they can become part of what makes us...
December 28, 2022
A song, written for Halloween. The Gaelic framing — kith and kin in the wind, spirits of trees, the Otherworld just behind the eyes — is taken seriously rather than as costume. The first verse is repeated at...
