The closer of the album. It only felt fair to give the guitar a turn with the tune.

I wanted to write a response to the happy-hobo songs that had been tormenting me (“King of the Road”, “Bummin’ Around”), and hit on this. It’s a little reflection and appreciation.

The second half of the theme to this album. Sit still too long and you become something else.

I wanted a loose nod to “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”, so I started it in the rain and ended it with returning to someplace I used to live. But then because of Bud Cort I thought the singer should inexplicably die at the end of each verse. This…

This is sort of a musical postcard for the Pacific NW. It’s among the goofier things I’ve made, and was pretty quick and dirty.

There is a built-in psychedelia when an inexpensive and out of tune ukulele is multitracked. This little ramble is built around tuning a five string banjo. Recorded straight to tape on a Tascam multistudo in 2012.

Track four from my 2012 RPM offering. It’s all acoustic instruments with no effects; the fake fuzz bass is a Pepe classical guitar played really close to the mic. Worth mentioning I guess that this was written and recorded some years before…

The third track from my 2012 RPM recordings. I wanted to have a recurring theme just like the Willie Nelson record at which I was nodding.

Track 2 from my 2012 RPM offering. Recorded inside of a VW bus in a garage in a duplex; the best soundproofing on offer.

Track 1 from my 2012 RPM offering. A gaggle of ukuleles toss around the recurring theme of the recordings.

Recorded in 2004, in an old cabin in rural NC. I don’t know why the fake accent.

Recorded in 2006 in Ashland OR. This was meant to be the backing track for a more complete song, of which all I can remember is the line “All I want to do / Is get stoned and read Harper’s”. Recorded in an airstream trailer.

Recorded in 2006 in Ashland OR, in an Airstream trailer I lived in for a summer. I barely had electricity so it’s a miracle I even got this much recorded.

Recorded in Denver in 2002. I sound like I’m pitching a song to Bread, but I don’t know how I would have liked that comment at the time.

Recorded in Denver in 2002, but I don’t remember it.

Recorded in Denver in 2001

Recorded in Denver in 2001, then promptly forgotten.

Recorded in 2001. The notes on the tape case say Moab.

Recorded in 2001 in an empty apartment in Mesa AZ. The drum kit is a cardboard box and a tambourine. The guitar is an acoustic and I’m sure I had to do some workaround to get it to sound like this.

Recorded in Mesa AZ in 2001.