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...
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Songs Published in 2026
12 songs
July 8, 2026
Still Here
A grief song set inside a shared house: the voice from the overstuffed chair, the hand reached for at night, doors that open onto memories. Presence in absence, gently insisted on — this house ain't really...
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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 27, 2026
Love Ain't Lovin' Me Back
A folk song, about giving love and not having it returned. The verse structure is plain — three lines building a situation, resolved in the refrain. The final verse turns the question: could this time be...
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March 25, 2026
Always Mine
A tender, complicated love song about the part of another person that remains within us even when life refuses permanence. It is less a claim of possession than an acknowledgment that deep feeling leaves a...
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March 25, 2026
Evil is Out Walking
A song built on the traditional doubled-line verse structure. The verses accumulate: evil is talking, scheming, grasping, using a whippin' boy, fooling frightened minds. The refrain names the target without...
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March 25, 2026
The Blues Have Got Me
A song about succumbing to sorrow even while trying to name it, joke with it, and sing through it. The title tells the truth up front and lets the verses live inside it.
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March 22, 2026
Siren
A song about a woman who might be a hallucination or might be real, whose hair floats and whose siren song the narrator can't stop hearing. The refrain — "oh, I want to see me in your eyes" — is the most...
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March 2, 2026
Hey Baby
A plainspoken song, returning to a traditional form: a man who wants to walk a woman home, worried she's still looking for someone else. The outro slows to the same four chords.
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February 25, 2026
Ballad for the ICE Man
A folk-blues structured as a community's collective voice speaking directly to immigration enforcement. The verses escalate from neighborhood to schools, from refusal to warning. The final line repeats slowly,...