It’s a long weekend so here’s a bonus throwback! This is the furthest back we’ve gone. As a kid I learned to write pop songs by setting classic poetry to music. I think I was barely fifteen when I put this one together. Plus, as followers of this blog already know, I have a thing... Continue Reading →
Debut of New Song! Working Title: “75/25”
I've been sharing so much old material that I thought it would be fun to share something new in its very early stages. It's rough and cobbled together and I have no idea what the final production will be like. But it was fun to record because normally by the time I'm recording something, I... Continue Reading →
Wayback Weekend #5
My high school's production of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" was a bittersweet allegory for all the folderol going on with me at the time (not to mention that our theater department opted for an interpretation that was a veritable pastiche of Bowie's Jareth, Peter Pan's Lost Boys, Robert Smith, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the... Continue Reading →
Wayback Weekend #4
This week’s selection is also from high school times, and it’s just a good old song about le desir. By the way, I just decided tonight to call these things “Wayback Weekends,” so I had to go back to all the other ones and update them to look like they’d been called that all along.... Continue Reading →
Wayback Weekend #3
In 1999 I was 17 and a senior in high school, and I liked to write, uh, moralistic saloon music - ? https://youtu.be/tnIBQp7MHbQ GatesShe with the lipsAnd the prodigal flameWho curses the heavensFrom which she cameMixes her pain And her faith all togetherAnd grinds them to dustOr wraps them in leatherShe who draws heatLike a... Continue Reading →
Wayback Weekend #2
https://youtu.be/QlRoMf7ITKw Down for GoodYou call me from some transient addressTo sew some tears and patch some holes and maybe confessYou say you wanna see me, I comply Cos I’ve wrongs of my own that I’d like to redressWe ride with winter sunlight in our eyesYour anger still reminds me of a blood orange skyI push... Continue Reading →
Wayback Weekend #1
Everything old is...eh, you know. This past weekend was the start of a thing: I’m going to relearn some of my old songs (including some juvenilia) and present them in YouTube vids. The first was a song called “Cake” which I wrote when I was in grad school in 2005. You can check it out... Continue Reading →
Severely Belated New Years Single Release (from the font of my formative influences)
Note: This entry and the accompanying single were supposed to come out on New Years '21 - a sort of Prohibition-era vibe - but for various reasons that didn't happen. Now here we are, past the first quarter, but the kind of quarter it's been makes this feel even more appropriate. In 1980, John Huston... Continue Reading →
Alexandra Rising (2007) – BandCamp Re-Release
Went ahead and uploaded my old 2007 solo debut (under the name Alexandra Rising) to BandCamp, as it might be interesting how the old and the new material play off each other. I had the privilege of working on that album with some great Richmond folks: Designer Recording (Meredith Brooks & Wayne Todd, formerly of... Continue Reading →
Something New, Something Old
The day following the completion of an artistic product is always weird. You wrestle with yourself over which new path to chase down next, which can result in a good deal of starting and stopping. What I ultimately landed on today was a plentiful lot of file management, to prepare for finally losing the home... Continue Reading →
The Sold Kingdom 