Recorded around a campfire in the San Rafael Swell.

Live looping under Echo Bridge in San Antonio, Tx.

Here's a current draft of a traditional tune I really like. There are several recorded versions out there.

Reg has been reading the papers again, it always brings him down, but this time he can't carry on looking the other way and ignoring the news and the facts that the life, the freedoms he holds dear are slowly being dissolved not just by his government…

A work in progress with some of my pals on wikiloops.com.

Done with my pal Mark Goldberg and Steve Caustrita.

Inspired by a huge Cottonwood tree I found washed up along the Mississippi River near Red Wing MN. D When your roots can’t seem to hold you When you’re A footing falls away Your D left to feel unstable With the A change that’s underway It…

A work done with Igor from icomp.

This is a track that I did in 2010 that appeared on first issue of the dearly departed Ramen Music.

The MN coffee table is back!!!! We have a new member too - Joel Schaubert, who joined Mark Lofgren and Greg Connor - veterans of the coffee table. Once again we wrote this song and recorded it in my backyard coffee table (hence some of the wind…

This was incredibly fun to write record and sing! Far from my best work - it's not a personal story - but recording it was a good time.

The 10th track from album Paradise. A funky blues instrumental to end the album. :)

The 4th track from album Paradise. A poetic devotional style tune.

The 3rd track from album Paradise. My version of an R & B tune.

7th track from album Paradise. A country style tune.

9th track from album Paradise. A country rock feel for this tune.

Not the best recording, but I wanted to pay homage to my older brother who passed away a few days ago. I recorded from our baby grand, and then lowered in a few steps so I could sing.

fretless junk strat, Bass VI

A song written an recorded for the Record Every Month challenge in September 2023

Done with my pal Igor

September 2023 B-side What have we done we've upset the balance And soon we all will bathe in fire What can we do to restore this balance We'd give it all to make it stop There's a huge volcano sitting just below the surface it could burst…

In the Serra sculpture Vortex with the 1937 Regal dobro

In the Serra sculpture Vortex with the 1936 Regal dobro

The first lines of the chorus just crept into my head. I had to write the rest. ALL IN You've been holding back for so long now And I've been losing track of how many times I've written my vows It feels like you're sleeping behind the…

An experiment were I string together a few files generated by text prompts in Stable Audio. Interesting - but they have serious work left to do and yet they are selling this for $12 / month to create 90 secs of audio - I used the free option and…

Now and perpendicular to now, where shadows are, as we will create the next song of music and make sounds together in the now but also in the perpendicular to now for the theme at sound in. of course any music on theme or not is ok. At right angles…