January 1, 2025
New Years Day, 2025
A New Year's Day reckoning that catalogs crisis after crisis without softening any of it. The repeated questions at the center are as plain as they are hard to answer.
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Songs Published in 2025
9 songs
September 30, 2025
Headin' North
A blues with a jam structure that opens up in performance. The lyric is about leaving a place that can no longer be saved — a town, a country, a moment — with the anger of someone who saw it coming and...
Rough Working Demo
May 18, 2025
A Thin Veneer
A folk song, about watching someone reveal themselves as something they didn't appear to be. The verses track from initial perception to current behavior to the question of how it will be viewed by history....
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May 3, 2025
Ain't No Slave
A song with a dark, resonant pulse, written as a direct response to the traditional spiritual "Ain't No Grave." The theological swap is explicit: no maker, no afterlife, no submission. The lyric is as plain...
May 3, 2025
Winter of Hate
A folk song, about the Boomer generation's transformation from Aquarian idealism to fearful authoritarianism. The verses describe the movement — tired of the establishment, now become the establishment,...
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...
Rough Working Demo
March 25, 2025
Can of Worms
A satirical folk song that turns its attention to public figures and the stories that gather around them. It lets the details speak for themselves, allowing the tone to shift between humor and unease without...
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March 9, 2025
Liberty
A political song spoken in the voice of Liberty herself, protesting the way her image has been turned against the people she was meant to welcome. Its anger is sharpened by grief for the promise being betrayed.
