Thanks to everyone who made it out to my CD release party, and an especially big giant thanks to Abe, Carly, and Morehouse helping set it up and playing sets of their own. I think it was a pretty wild success – I got one more show under my belt, I didn’t make a lot [...]

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If you’re curious about this, and I’ll bet $20 you aren’t, here’s a word cloud of every chord in my album. Give or take a couple transcription errors, I used 92 different chords and 1,549 chord changes. 92 chords – I don’t know if that’s a big number or not. I know there are some [...]

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Lemme ask you a trick question: Which album was “Hey Jude” originally released on? Trick answer: Uh, none. One of the most recognizable Beatles songs (Naaa na na NANANA-NAH!) was, as was customary at the time, released as a single but never repackaged on an album. This is true of many of our favorite songs [...]

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Hi friends! Long time no blog. Or… something. I promise I’m working hard. In fact, I’m working on the last handful of songs right now. And that’s where you come in. On the last song of the album, I hope to be joined by a chorus of lots and lots of voices. They can be [...]

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Here’s a little 30 second preview of what I’ve been up to. Just in case you wanted proof that I’m still a musician…

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My new guitar is awesome. [Quick note for the skeptics: this is not a paid advertisement. I paid my own real money to buy this guitar, and though I have freakish brand loyalty to Godin/Seagull guitars, they don't do anything for me but make amazing instruments for me to pay my own real money to [...]

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I have made a decision or three! When I started “The Fortnighter” last February, the plan was to record a song every two weeks for an unspecified amount of time, call it an album, then tell people “HEY, I MADE THIS.” About five songs in, I realized that I didn’t want to live with some [...]

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I finally have a decent picture of myself to adorn the header of my site. That’s all. Not sure why I blogged it, actually. Just proud of myself for remembering how I created the header I guess. Thanks for, um, looking.

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