I hope you can see the above picture - I scored a 15 chord autoharp zither for $42 on ebay. 4 old guitar strings later (I save them... just in case :-) and a tuning against an organ patch she is working nicely again. Can't wait to show Emily…

Low Quality bare recording of my Man of Sorrows arrangement. Vocals and guitar recorded simultaneously through my laptop internal microphone.

Reworked the vocals a bit (quite a bit). And yet again! And now, Gumbo Stu is singing backup bits. Thanks for the vocals Gumbo, a very welcome addition! And, as requested, here are the lyrics: I'm Not Afraid You can blow me up You…

Gothic Rocker off of The Raygun Girls' sophomore album - The Ones I Denied.

Just a little song about another hopeless romantic. Actually, I just really like the name Svetlana.

Lyrics: Skip ahead to her in pants, watch her dance in the living room in front of all the other dinner guests. She thumbs her nose at simulacra, but someone must play Cleopatra in the PTA's yearly drama fest. Her husband broke his body…

Gothic Rocker off of The Raygun Girls' sophomore album - The Ones I Denied.

Gothic Rocker off of The Raygun Girls' sophomore album - The Ones I Denied.

Final version of this tune - voice and guitar, banjoe accompaniment i'm still getting used to this new mic and finding my voice sounds different with or i'm singing differently because of it. So .. feedback appreciated, and if you like it…

EDIT final version now posted and the page turning is gone but i left this intro as is in case anyone is reading the comments. Does anyone read the comments? or the intro? i turn a page somewhere in the middle of all this - you'd think i would…