Haunted

Here is the song that I wrote yesterday. I recorded a preliminary version of it today, which I posted to my ReverbNation page. Click on the embedded link below to play it:

The lyrics should be on there as well. This song is basically about the memories left behind when a person is gone. I hope you like it. 

It looks like I might be working on another album after all. 

Thanks for listening. 

Mused

I wrote a new song today. More to come...

Tributaries

My song Original Miles has been streamed on Spotify almost 10,000 times now. That many streams and I think that you can safely call it a river. Thank you to everyone who listens to and shares my music. A few hundred more and we'll cross that 10k threshold, which probably puts it on even more automatically generated playlists. This is how it spreads, and it all started with you. 

I've said it before, but you're the real rock stars; I'm just a guy who plays music. I am truly honored and humbled by your continued support. It feels great to know that people around the world are listening to my songs. That's why I wrote them.

Black Ribbon Day, also from Embers (2021), has been streamed a few thousand times now and continues to find its way onto playlists as well. Again, thanks to everyone for listening and for helping my music to reach a broader audience. I couldn't have done it without you.

If you're new around here, welcome to what I do. If you like my music, please share it with your friends, add it to your playlists and follow me wherever you listen. 

As always, thank you for supporting independent art. 

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If you want to check out more of my music but you're not sure where to start, here are my top twenty (of fifty-four total) tracks on Spotify in terms of all-time streams:

1.  Original Miles 

2.  Black Ribbon Day 

3.  Be Civilized

4.  Panic Attack

5.  Now or Forever?

6.  Life Preserver

7.  Modern Inconveniences

8.  Entropy

9.  Antidote

10. Don't Forget Who You Are

11. Make Some Noise! (Summer of '99)

12. Particle 

13. The Fool

14. Gravel Roads

15. Gravity

16. Screen Memories

17. Baby Blue

18. Turn the Page

19. Wake Up!

20. Life/Time

If you use a different streaming service, you should be able to find these songs there, too. 

Fun Songs to Play

Happy Friday. Today's songs that I would like to share with you are among my favorite to perform live. Even though all three of these tracks are taken from my previous albums, they almost always find their way into my setlists, even if I'm just performing in an empty room of my house (as you can see in the videos embedded below).

The first song that I would like to share with you today is called Particle. It is the opening track on my 2017 album, Weather Patterns, and it is essentially about contextualizing our place in a very big universe. The chorus goes like this:

    When I look up at the stars

    So far away

    God, I feel so small

    Who am I, anyway?

    Just a particle of light

    In the sky tonight

    Is that a shooting star

    Or a satellite?

The second song that I would like to share happens to also be the second song on that same album. Gravel Roads is also quite fun to play. I hope you enjoy listening to it as well. I wrote it on my front porch, and I think that vibe comes through a little bit. Personally, I like the way that the rhythm section in particular turned out on this one, especially since it was one of the first songs that I recorded as a solo artist (as was Particle, for that matter). This song is about the unexpected places that life takes us. It's also about going for a road trip if only to get the fuck out of wherever. 

If you want to sing along, here is the chorus:

    Where do we go from here?

    It could be anywhere

    We don't know where we're going

    Until we get there

Continuing with this theme of songs that are fun to play, this next one is called Panic Attack. This is track two on Mechanical Bull, which I also released in 2017. It was a particularly busy year for me. This is another song that finds its way into most of my sets, whether I am practicing or performing. I wrote this song in November of 2016. I'll let you do the math in terms of figuring out what it's about. If you want a hint, though, I will say that it involves a certain orange shit stain on our body politic. 

    No one knows what's supposed to happen next

    So we just keep our fingers crossed

    And keep hoping for the best

    But I know if we unite

    Then together we can fight

    Everything we know is wrong

    We don't have to play along anymore 

(I recorded these videos not long after the songs were written. As you can see, four years of Drumpf put a lot a grey in my hair. No joke.) 

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As a bonus track, here's one that I tend to think of as my Friday song. This song does not yet have an album, nor is it available anywhere else to stream or purchase, but in recent weeks, it has become a regular part of my setlists as well. It is called The Regular, after all.

At some point in the relatively near future, I will post an embedded video of a more up-to-date and extended performance that includes this song, as well as some tracks from my newest album, Embers (2021). I encourage you to check back often, as I update this site almost daily. Even though I tend to think of myself as more of a songwriter, I do miss performing, mostly because it's a fun way to share my work. 

Enjoy the music. Spread the word. Thanks for listening and for supporting independent art.

My Latest Obsession

On my Spotify artist's page, I recently discovered that I can see how many people are actively listening to my songs at any one given time. Upon learning this, I admit that it has been kind of hard to look away. 

It amazes me to know that, at least in recent weeks, there is almost always somebody somewhere in the world who is listening to my music. Right now, that person might be you. As far as I'm concerned, that makes you the reigning title-holder of "Coolest Person on the Planet," so congratulations. You probably didn't even know you were nominated.

So far, the most listeners I've ever seen at any one time has been sixteen, which might not seem like much, but to me, it's kind of a big deal. If you want to make my day, please share my music and we'll see if we can get that number up even higher. If it ever hits a hundred or more, I might just crap myself. I'll keep an extra pair of shorts on hand, just in case. 

Perhaps even more amazingly, my song Original Miles has been streamed almost eight thousand times over the past two weeks! I'm not the type of person to just throw around exclamation points, either, so I hope you know how completely blown away I am by this. I am honored and humbled by your support.

Thank you to all of my listeners and fans around the world, with a very special thanks to those of you who continue to share my music and add it to your playlists. As a one-man-band/DIY recording artist, I am also my own publicist. It probably doesn't help that I rather loathe social media. To get around this, I communicate with all of you by way of this blog. 

Thanks for listening and thanks for reading. You rock.