This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. There aren’t many people in the United States for whom Seattle is South, but I’m one! I thought of the opening line for this tune while driving south to Seattle from my home in Bellingham. I got stuck in I-5 […]
This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. This was inspired by a FAWM challenge: Write a song about the weather. I decided to sample clips from Cliff Mass (cliffmass.blogspot.com), whose forecasts were —at that time— featured on KPLU (“NPR and all that jazz”) in Seattle. Cliff’s forecasts […]
This was one of my favorite tunes from February Album Writing Month (fawm.org) in 2012. Try as I may, It’s hard to avoid letting politics influence my songwriting, especially when we Americans are bombarded so relentlessly with it in the media. Interestingly though, this wasn’t originally going to be a political tune. The first three […]
There’s a lot of music on this site. You can find my music-related blog posts by selecting “Music” from the sidebar under Categories. I also have released three commercial records, each profiled below with links to all the tracks. On the individual track pages you’ll find lyrics, liner notes, and the song itself (free! although […]
This post comes live from the National Student Electronic Media Convention, the annual fall convention of College Broadcasters, Inc (CBI). It’s in Seattle this year, and I was invited to present on web/media accessibility along with folks from WKNC, North Carolina State University’s student-run radio station. This is a very cool coincidence, since my co-presenters […]