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Dammit (Blink 182 cover)
This is the most unlike me I could ever be. But it seemed like a perfectly natural direction for the song to take, and my luck has been severely down the last couple days, so...
(dear people who hate blink182. I do too, most of the time. This doesn't sound like them)
Roll Back the Stone
I was in a good mood this week.
Oh! Susanna
Classical banjo and fingerstyle guitar arrangement of the Stephen Foster tune. [more inside]
Init 2
A short, chilled-out acoustic tune.
'Til We're Dead
I think I managed to write a somewhat upbeat song! Well, upbeat if you ignore the title and lyrics. It's got: hammond organ, celesta, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, and some epic "Woo-oo-oooh" back up vocals.
Tonight Hit the Bong With Me
A very dumb cover of Tonight You Belong To Me, written by Lee David, 1926.
Money, Money, Money
An Abba cover that I made while experimenting with Audacity. Any suggestions (music, equipment, software, anything) welcome. [more inside]
boing
hubris in E major [more inside]
Things I Used to Know (demo)
"Our minds are permeable to forgetfulness; I myself am distorting and losing, through the tragic erosion of the years, the features of Beatriz."
-- Jorge Luis Borges [more inside]
Duckblur
Scrooge McDuck reminisces about former love affairs, smokes a cigar on his gazebo.
Movin' On Up
The lazy cracker, banjo-infused version of the Jeffersons theme song. [more inside]
Half
A new song idea, hatched out of procrastination for finals. It kind of grows. I write songs backwards, I realized today. [more inside]
You and Me
Slice of acoustic girl singer pop. [more inside]
Muster
A song from a promising project called Lek that ended up short-lived as we found ourselves living far away from each other.
Lyrics and melody by the same friend K who sang the Bjork cover that I posted a while ago. The music is by the rest of us.
Incident After
From the same EP of 2007 as My Fire (O Captain! My Captain!). This one is a little too laid back for how I play it now, it's meant to be a bit more punchy and at a faster clip. [more inside]
Fever Dream
A song written and recorded today in one go. Can you guess what it's about? [more inside]
This Town
Not so different from anything else I've done, but I'm proud of the production of this one. [more inside]
Love More
Title song from my self-produced record last year. [more inside]
Blankets and Pillows
Recorded last summer sometime, was on a solo album I produced. [more inside]
No Going Back
This is not the happiest song I've ever written. [more inside]
Marie
Song I wrote and recorded recently when thinking about how thankful I am for my friends. [more inside]
Sunday Front Porch
Early morning front porch music... [more inside]
Hard Times Come Again No More
Just installed new strings and set up my new 3-mic stand; I figured I'd test drive 'em both. [more inside]
Try to act surprised
A song about accepting that bad stuff sometimes does, and will, happen. Written after the untimely death of a relative a year ago. It's not about him per se, but it does make me think of him every time I play it or hear it, just because the song came together at around the time of his passing.
On the Count of Three
I wrote this song last week and started playing with it this weekend. I'm excited about its potential, but I would looove love love some feedback. [more inside]
Matches
The first track from my forthcoming concept EP. This is a very, very rough demo. [more inside]
Riff tide
Some simple arpeggios and other guitar improvs [more inside]
We Almost Lost Detroit
A living room rendition. [more inside]
A New Year
Today's forecast calls for a wintry mix of snow and melancholy. [more inside]
The Last Time I Saw Moscow
A very lo-fi one-take recording by The Grandma Sylvias. Acoustic guitar and vocals only; all apparent distortion is coming from knobs turned very high.
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cooloop
after the recent posts from umbu and corduroy, I couldn't resist upping this. I tried... but...
Wasn't designed to and isn't specifically related to, but I'd like to dedicate it to the memory of jeff healey.
Secret Book (Vocal Mix - Redux)
Due to popular demand, here's yet another mix of "Secret Book" with vocals, as originally posted here and here. [more inside]
My Bones
Shelter
This is a song a friend of mine named Audrey Johnston wrote that I think is pretty. [more inside]
So, Why Not?
More 4-track clearance. This time, it's a happy, bouncy ditty from 1993: two guitars, some whistling and happily mumbled lyrics. Recorded probably with Fleetwood Mac's Tusk on the brain, with all knobs turned up to eleven. [more inside]
Secret Book (Vocal Mix)
This is a new version of Secret Book, of which I originally posted an instrumental version here. On the new mix, my wife Lori sings beautifully, and I wail a bit at the end. [more inside]
Otra ciudad
Cumbia. [more inside]
The Punisher
A little acoustic guitar ditty that sounds like something that would be perfectly suited for a front porch. [more inside]
Engine
This is a cover of Engine by Neutral Milk Hotel. The original was the B-side of Holland, 1945. I made this recording in honor of the tenth anniversary of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. [more inside]
Venom
This is a southern rock song about starting over, shedding your skin. It's my favorite song that I have ever recorded, and one of the first ones I ever recorded as well. [more inside]
Veronica
A song for lovely miss V. [more inside]
Syllable
Here's another song, aptly named for its one beat per syllable nature. [more inside]
Wishing Well
It's a song about playing make believe games, and pretending that everything's going to be alright, when really it's all gone to shit. It's also somewhat of a sea shanty.
Oh, Johanna
Bluesy folksy track, an ode to Johanna [more inside]
Sub Rosa
For those in a good mood, I offer a song of loss and betrayal. Enjoy! [more inside]
Rounds
A song about a night out on the town [more inside]
Fountain
My friend and I play a lot of acoustic music around local coffee shops in town. Here's one of the many mandolin tunes we wrote in my living room last summer. I'm on mandolin and my friend is playing backup guitar.
The Girl From Donkey Kong (Demo)
A song about breaking up with the love of your life, only to watch them to find the love of their life straight afterwards. [more inside]
Stay
cover of the song by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. Fingerstyle guitar, vocals, banjo. Created for the 2008 Songfight! Gift of Music sidefight.
Enough #2
Acoustic version of a previous entry. [more inside]