To be clear: the title comes from a place near where I grew up. There was a place one could squeeze through between two sandstone cliffs if one were thin, or a kid. I was a kid. I’ve got a couple vocal things I’ve been wanting to record…

I used to spend time with my 4-track just starting to drop track after track, building up a recording as it came. I hadn’t done this for well over a decade until I did that last recording, a bit over a week ago. This one has a more conventional…

I have recorded since 1998 to my computer, generally using ProTools but also Garageband. For various reasons, I am not in a position where I can record to computer easily right now. I do have a 4-track cassette recorder, though, and I dusted…

Last night I went to my meditation group, and in the portion of it where we are to share how our practice is going I made the point that I feel in the last month, having made a lot of changes to my life, like I’ve woken up from a 20-year bender…

As an aside, I’ve also made a page on Bandcamp for my music. I was listening yesterday morning to the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and this tune, the first on their record, Dona’s Got a Ramblin’ Mind (or here, in iTunes), came on. Their version…

Improvised to tape, percussion first.

This, it turns out somewhat surprisingly to me, is the first original, vocal tune I've posted here. So be it: I like the tune, and the recording, after an initial try that was not only in too high a key for my voice (never a good idea) but was…

I've been listening to a ton of free jazz recently, and having just read Amiri Baraka's Black Music, I checked out Albert Ayler, about whom I'd heard for years. I was floored. I knew that John Fahey was a fanatic, and thought I'm not the world…

I've had this tune for a while, but for whatever reason never had a decent approach to the arrangement until the last few weeks. I'm pleased with how it turned out, and particularly like how I stole a Sun Records Johnny Cash arrangement for the…

The planxty is about as high a form as one can get, and while this isn't a planxty in a traditional, musical sense, Tom deserves a tune. Tom is, indeed, just Tom as far as I know, and I did meet him in AA. His bottom--how low he went, that is…

I hadn't done an improvisation to tape for a few weeks, which on the one hand is not a bad thing: I have a number of concrete ideas that are still waiting for a recording, and have made a few in the last couple weeks, too. In any event, I took…