New Music
Getting better at the home production process allows me to finish songs a little faster. I use a $50 software workstation called FL Studio that makes me thankful to live in this day and age.
I Can’t Go On Pretending lyricsmp3
Every so often a song seems to write itself, and this song is one of a pair that I hold above all others. It’s mostly a list of the questions I had as a child, outgrew, and then grew back into. I will write more, but this is what I’ve always wanted to say.
The One I Remember lyricsmp3
Another bad girl song, this one with an alt country vibe. The keyboard sound is a free Wurlitzer 200a emulation from GSi.
Riding a Wave lyrics
My wife-to-be bought me a Harmony lap steel guitar in Phoenix. I believe it was $75, and I’ve always loved it. It’s featured on this song about an anti-hero.
I’m Gonna Rise lyricsmp3
About a romance with a girl who might be bad news. The line “you hang like a pocket watch” grew from an awe-inspiring frame of Death Comes to Dillinger.
I Stole This Song lyricsmp3
One day I stopped writing about desperate love and got more confident and complicated at the same time. At any rate, everybody should have a song that starts off with a George Washington quotation.
Genevieve lyricsmp3
I think I found something of a new voice sometime in 2008. The chorus has a free mellotron emulation called Tape Worm
Tangerine lyrics
When your entire adult life is ahead of you, relationships have a unique and mysterious intensity.
Nothing But Timelyrics
About a mythical woman with a bit of angel and devil in her. It might have the highest word count of anything I’ve ever written.
Album Tracks
Wasted Time lyrics
I often introduce this one as being about my two great loves. Dave Cates adds some really nice touches to the chorus on the album.
Prettylyrics
I wrote this song with a partial capo that a roommate filed down for me, allowing the two most treble strings to ring. I prefer it to the most frequently sold version, which frets either an Esus or A chord shape. I think the sound of Sarah McLachlan’s “Building a Mystery” was what I was looking for.
Getaway Car lyricsmp3
I have to resist the temptation to put Fade Into You on every mix I ever make. Thank Kevin Roberts for the amazing production on this one.
Scenery lyrics
There was an infinite sameness to the girls in the clubs I first started playing at. A girl with interesting opinions seems like an angel there.
Please lyrics
I’d love to hear an R&B cover of this one.
Wide Awake lyrics
I wrote two of these a week when I fell in love with my wife to be. This one stayed around.
Gone lyrics
One of many songs about leaving, a constant theme.
“Heartbreaking songs about love...a welcome musical present” - College Times