WHAT A MONTH!
And I don’t just mean the last two weeks. Jumped immediately from the tour in June into a full week of home improvement tasks, then was the stupid July 4th holiday week, then we had some family from overseas in town, during which time I also spent a truly lovely week in Asbury Park, eating at Cat’s Luck Vegan in Nep...
2024-07-29 17:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostAdam and the Ants Pride jam, live at The Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, 2018. Stellar aggressive harmonies by Ralph and our dear friend who we're missing on this tour, Adrian Berry. Crank it!
2024-06-19 16:00:45 +0000 UTC View PostYou know who doesn't get enough ink, both for the Pharmacists and his many other endeavors? James Canty. I sat down with him to talk about his first, earth-shaking band, The Nation of Ulysses. Corner and ask him more about them when you see him with us on tour this year!
2024-06-19 15:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostComing in under the wire! With all the thinking about, and practicing of, and archival-materials-adjacent-to Shake The Sheets combing-through, I’ve been thinking about the writing; I’ve been thinking about what I was thinking about while recording; and like the longest tape delay, set on a single repeat, looping back, forgotten and unl...
2024-05-31 15:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, folks - this is just a heads-up to you Patreon supporters that after digging around and finding that Little Dawn demo I posted here a couple of months ago, I found demos for the rest of the album, and will be putting them up on Bandcamp tomorrow (Fri. May 3, 2024). As with all my Bandcamp stuff, I'm working with a "free if you need it/happ...
2024-05-02 18:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostI’m into this idea of putting my thoughts for these posts at the bottom, hoping you can have your own experience with the song first, and so that’s what I’ll do here again.
DELIVERING LETTERS FOR VIVIAN
I was working for a roofing crew ’til back in ’94
Somebody took my roofing tools and threw them
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2024-04-24 17:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostDELIVERING LETTERS FOR VIVIAN
song and info in separate post!
2024-04-24 17:05:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Again, as mentioned in the other posts here, encouraging everyone to listen to the songs before reading my meandering thoughts about them, but they meander around below the lyrics here, if and when you’re ready.
JUBILEE
All out on the old railroad, all out on the sea
All out on the old railroad, as far as I can ...
2024-03-28 01:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As I mentioned in the overview post, encouraging everyone to take the song in before reading my overlong and overwrought thoughts about it, which, should you find yourself GENUINELY CURIOUS about (that’s a joke that will reveal itself in the writing bit), you’ll find below the lyrics
THE TRUE SAM PATCH
Up from the r...
2024-03-28 01:01:40 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the lateness this month - big post, and a lot going on!
1. Chit chat about it all in this video (including some #GearTalk), and a live version of Irish song, “The Freedom Fighter”
2. New song, “The True Sam Patch.”
3. Traditional song, “Jubilee”
4. (coming) “Podcast” interview about th...
2024-03-28 00:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostYo! I talked for way too long in the above video, but let me try to boil it down for you here:
1. Tickets for these June shows are kind of going fast. NYC is already sold out, DC and Chicago are on their way, the rest are moving along at a clip that both happily surprises AND slightly frightens me. No editorial on that - just letting you k...
2024-02-29 05:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostI guess I waxed on a little too much in the previous post, because it wouldn't let me add this to it, but here's a demo that, even after culling a ton of demos for my MIXTAPE OF DEMOS a few years ago, I literally had no idea existed until I found it buried deep on an old hard drive tonight. Probably hasn't been listened to, even by me, since bef...
2024-02-13 03:47:57 +0000 UTC View Post
FOLKS, an announcement! Greater detail in the above video, plus a performance, BUT I wanted to let you know that TOMORROW, Tuesday, Feb. 13, we will be announcing some tour dates: full band, playing Shake the Sheets in its entirety (plus more...
2024-02-13 03:45:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a reworking of a song that I wrote back in 2016 for a series that the great Ben Arthur was doing, in which he placed songwriters with authors and had us write something sparked by a story. I had the honor of being paired with Joyce Carl Oates, and jumping off from her story, "Deceit," wrote a maudlin thing about martyrdom and famil...
2024-02-09 03:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
In the video, I repeat a lot about "why Patreon" that you can read in the "About" section of my page; but re. the song, something new that I finished writing, recorded, mixed, and "mastered," on Wed., Feb. 7, 2024. It sounded like a number of other things to me at first, and I almost gave up on it, but then all of a sudden, it started just sound...
2024-02-09 03:47:06 +0000 UTC View Post
