This album is collected from many years of songwriting, and most of these songs were in fact never meant to be recorded. I wrote them, well, just because. This has made assembling an album interesting, since I didn’t really start with a general theme or story behind the scenes.
Nevertheless, as if by magic, as I’ve [...]

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Painstakingly mixing songs for the next album, in final preparation for mastering.
This is the first song on the album, and in the intervening months since I last posted it (click here for previous version) it has gone through a lot of changes. In the live rehearsal version I posted nearly a year ago, Morgan and [...]

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Happy New Year! Keeping my promise, here’s another post – and it hasn’t even been a month! This is an old song from the blue book which has undergone a pretty odd transformation since I decided to put it in the album. I grew up with LPs and cassettes, see, and when I’m putting together [...]

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Another song in the can. This song really came together for me with Morgan’s contributions, not the least of which was singing backup. A lot of differences from the last attempt: I redid the main guitar line because I didn’t like the sound of the earlier recording, even though the playing was fine. The bass [...]

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This song has undergone a pretty substantial transformation since I wrote it. Originally it was a much harder-driving song, very electric and groovy (click here for the first post). Then, after playing around with Morgan and Nando, the song grew into a much steadier, kind of gentler thing.
The kernel for this song first appeared in [...]

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