cover of Arboretum on Vetiver's first album

Down low dirty blues with a big nod to ZZ Top

Jonathan Thomas looks at 2 Corinthians 8 ad 9

it is winter. there is breath. it flows in the forest. the white fur is hidden in the trees. it moves slowly toward the heart. the heart beats fast. it runs. the white fur moves slowly. it will always catch the heart, no matter how fast the heart…

Fantasia Fireworks Festival, NY

Something different...

Fantasia Fireworks Festival, NY

Apparently I wrote this three years ago, well, August '06. I just found it. It picks up after a minute or so...

This great old (Public Domain) song by Stephen Foster which I just do and has nothing to do with my current state of life but may not be true for others. I do this song in a most unusual way. That is to say I changed the melody of the verses…

Lyric: SHE She, Shes never far away from me. She always gives me what I need. So that I never want. She, She never strays too far from home. She rarely leaves me all alone. She's my whole world. She, She watches over me. She…

This is a new song off our 2009 release " Middle of the Night" . Available online everywhere in late summer .

I wondered why she stuck around.

I was confused.

Everyone was wrong.

A promise to my love.

A moment of doubt . . .

Needs no explanation.

A song about the first time we made love.

I was tired with my life and things around me.

A story to my love. I'm not perfect, but I love you.

A song about discovering someone new.

There once was a town called Kalamazoo and there once was a venue called Kraftbrau, but then an evil Wizard named Sean Smith came along and decided to fuck everyone right in the mouth. He did it for the best reason possible, to make more money…

Certain technology has made us soft and slow and easily distracted and though it started out as a way to make things easier for everyone, it has turned into laziness, and we don't even use that extra time for anything of value anymore.

Inspired by a vision of someone dousing the flames of a burning flag by pissing on it. We've been letting certain fat cats piss all over our freedom, we shouldn't forget that freedom is not a privilege it is a right, those dastardly bastards…

To protect and serve their corporate masters, cops have been getting away with massive atrocities on the streets of our lovelorn cities, this is a little stab at their black and white world of corruption and double standards.

Instrumental and loving it.