~Au Bordel~ Lived in, played there all sorts of things. Salon. Tango.

~The lightest slumber envelop me and I fall asleep, calm and in peace. Just for a moment of truth~

~Bless the Beasts & Children~ Shades of feeling. How do I transfer them to the music unless only I can is to roar as the buffalo? Overload from top, firmament from below. Play one note. Then another, then a third. Then overdrive them, all…

Written & Recorded: Feb 26, 2011 GADGAD Capo III, DADGAD Capo III This is probably my last track for this year's RPM Challenge (leaving it incomplete for 2011). I'm kind of worn out and not feeling super inspired this year and I sort of…

Bookending the "Late December" CD, this song about my little girls on Christmas morning holds a special place in my heart. Thanks to Sam and Mick for making it perfect. One Perfect Day Go to sleep my blue-eyed girl The sun is on its…

Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf.. Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.

This song was born on the 18th of Feb. 2011. It was the last piece I wrote/recorded for the challenge. It was a very sad day for me, almost as if all my usual winter sadness was concentrated and crammed into one day. The process of writing and…

Had these backing tracks laying around on my drive for a while and didn't know what to do with them, so grabbed my Ebow and a fretless electric that I built for myself a couple years ago and had a go. My fretless playing is really in its infancy…

Kinda rough. I'm uploading this mainly to share a guitar technique I've been working on. I'm wearing a slide on my picking hand and using it to alter pitches in single line phrases. There's a lot more can be done with this technique that I've…

A moody solo acoustic thing that I came up with playing in a long forgotten tuning. Just got a new Zoom H4N, so this was recorded in my shop sitting at my reedmaking bench may 12 2009