Monthly Archives: May 2010

Another one from Star Island, four tracked in February as a contribution to Guy and Jarid’s RPM Challenge project. Dionne Warwick – A Song A Day in May Can you imagine all the calculations Required to compute the phrase “I’ll never fall in love again” She sang on the radio In an abstract way it’s [...]

Maybe my most elaborate home recording and highfalutin song, written in the mid-90s and recorded around 2002 while I had been briefly sucked into ProTools and Reason. It’s three distinct sections rolled together Abbey Road style. The outline was simple: falling asleep, drifting into dream, sunlight. I attempted a Bradleyism with the staring at the [...]

A quick draft from a Lynch Pins ten minute writing exercise, 2008, with the assignment of coming up with something about not remembering. The concept behind the awkward title phrase is that you can remove either the first word or the last word and it the meaning changes direction. Nothing I Remember When – A [...]

I recorded this Wednesday night, fresh for you.  The song was written in the Oceanic Hotel during a storm last fall.  The room was leaking from the ceiling and I had three or four coffee cups arranged on the floor collecting drips.  Weather and navigation.  I wondered where birds sheltered on such a tiny, craggy [...]

From 2007, this is a sad, sad song about losing a child. It could be a real weeper done Stanley Bros. style with a mandolin instead of the steel. Loosely inspired by 100 sing-alongs of the grim/sweet “You Are My Sunshine” at the end of Chris Leone’s nursing home old-timey shows. All This Sunshine – [...]