Category: Music

This really is a happy little swing tune, written in a feel-good state of mind. If you think it isn’t happy, try listening again, and this time snap your fingers and sing along.

Inspired by actual events, this is my outlaw tale in three parts.

We recently got a new tankless water heater. It’s supposed to be better for the environment, but I think any benefits are offset by the fact that my showers are much, much longer now. I wrote this song in its entirety during one of those long, hot showers.

This song is the outcome of a father-daughter project. My 11-year old daughter Zoë and I created “cut-ups”, inspired by William S. Burroughs and other artists who have experimented with similar techniques. The process goes something like this: Select two or more unrelated samples of written language. Take a pair of scissors and cut them […]

This all started when I happened across a recording of the orangutan who sings the first verse. He clearly was singing the blues, and I imagined how cool that would sound with an acoustic guitar. I tried playing along, and I was right – it did sound cool! But it needed something more. I went […]