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Before (kitchen table recording)
This phone recording of Before was made yesterday at my kitchen table while I was running through an intended tour set list on my Harmony nylon.
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William and Emily (spoon river demo)
William & Emily. Last song on the 2000 album The Hill. The final version was re-recorded with air-chord organ & cello at Wavelab Studio in Tucson AZ in…
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Fool Me (The Vulgar Boatmen) — an MD8 home recording
I tried a version a long time ago, then never followed through. I finally got around to it on my eight-track mindisc recorder this week.
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Measured (a minidisc coda)
Measured is an example of falling between the cracks but never completely disappearing.
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Ollie McGee (spoon river demo) — a cappella & electric autographs
This twofer spoon river demo postcard kinda got away from me — it’s vast in its insular dimensions involving gospel music, secular literature & possible…
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Straight (MD8 demos)
This nylon guitar demo was made somewhere along the way between everything: interim locations, makeshift bonds & other manic bouts of abandon.
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Sleep/Go (lost-&-found home recording #13)
Sleep was one of a trio of songs (including Willow & Lost) written around 2007 with a commissioned score in mind.
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Once (since cassette demos 1997)
There’s much flame imagery throughout the 1998 album Since. The final song, Once, alone mentions a fuse, a torch & a spray of lights. But, it was only…
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Surrounded (lost-&-found home recording #10)
This first draft of Surrounded is from October 2012. It was plucked on a no-name guitar from a small room by an insomniac, stated in the initial lyrics…
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Impasse midway mockup 2002 — A Shift & the Clouds've Lied
demos on the run
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beautiful question (lost-&-found home recording #8)
About 2011, I was asked to do incidental music that would score a trailer for a craft workshop video with designer Jill Draper, marking my first music…
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Spell (MD8 demos)
Spell was written & demoed from a Bed-Stuy brownstone second floor room overlooking the street. I’d just moved in, & was absorbing the new surroundings…
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