[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [special note: i'm playing a show on monday, feb 2 at the pub at Vios. it's at 65th st and 20th ave below third place books in north seattle. show starts at 7pm. i'll be playing some billie burke estate tunes, a few monday songs and some [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] i’ve had the basic melody and chords for this song for some months now. the original chorus ended “she’s a star of stage and shingles vaccines,” which i still enjoy, but try as i might, it just wouldn’t spawn any lyrics i liked.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] number eight brings us back to the wholeheartedly sad songs. this one came very fast. the opening chord sequence and the lines “too much history, too much you and me” came almost at once. most weeks, finding words is like stripping wallpaper – a lot of effort [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] the seventh installment and first of 2009. i wrote and recorded this one a week before the first monday song was released. the musical idea that kicked this off was the opening piano with the A moving up to an unstable Dmaj7. (it’s somewhat rare for me [...]
