Literally everything I've done this month could be titled "Social Distance" or "Shelter in Place" or "Holy shit this is scary as hell". I don't think I ever really plan to write a big dumb sludgy rock song, but they always show up and here…

Get well John Prine

Another one with an attempt to sort of improvise the rhythm guitar part. Some of it at least. Also, another one with a melody that... well... seemed like a good idea at the time. The rhythm guitar is a Gibson SG, the lead is a Gibson Les…

I've been writing melodies and lyrics earlier in the process than I'm really used to. Normally I sit at the mic and write and record everything at once. Lately I've been writing a melody with a piano track, then writing lyrics that fit, and…

There are a few things from this month's batch of songs that I tried to kind of improvise the rhythm guitar part. I looped a section of the song and without figuring out what I wanted to do ahead of time I hit record and saw what happened. This…

One thing I like about covers is turning a song on its head, so that's what I did with this tune from the great ABS album "The Far Side Of Paradise". I hope I made Lane proud.

So... I usually try to come up with a little story about each song when I post. This time... I got nothing. It's in 7/8 and there was one section that I screwed up the guitar part about a million times. Other than that? I got nothing. The…

In light of what's going on today my mind has been racing nonstop to digest the situation. I had to put this track into a higher perspective. -Creation -Destruction -Rebirth

Updated 4.2.2020

This is the parable of the lost sheep and the Shepard the left the other 99 to go get the lost one.

Some people will always surprise you with their particular styles of sayin hello..

6 by live in Pure Data with baritone ukulele.

Well the virus has my friend and music partner in Krakow Poland sheltering in place but we are using the time to write and record..here is our latest...we tried to write in the style of Motown...check it out ... all music and production by Art…

BECAUSE OF YOU Because of you, I took her picture off the wall Because of you, I packed her skate board and her clock Because of you, I stashed it all behind the couch Because of you, I'll never have to throw it out I know with you that…

Written Fall 2018 Recorded Spring 2020

Written Fall 2015 Produced Summer 2018

Written Spring 2017 Finalized Summer 2018

This song features my first attempt at recording myself playing a drumkit. I only did four takes, sorry. Lyrics: They’re gonna say I stole this song And I knew it all along They own the copyright on C, G, C, G, D They’re gonna sue the…

This one is the only track that I am a little disappointed in. I thought it would be a banger and a lead-off track, but I had trouble getting it to exactly where I thought it would be. I think the problem is that I am nowhere near as good a singer…

There is actually a LOT of goose poop at my office park, but I opted to use the joke title referring to my favorite Beach Boys song. FWIW, the drum loops came from https://www.organicdrumloops.com/

A post on the Facebook RPM group featured a quote from an aging Dave Grohl complaining about Kids These Days and Their Terrible Music, pointing out that the current number-one song was about someone's butt. So, I wrote a song about my butt…

I wrote this song for my brother, who'd recently had surgery. Yes, I know it's long. I cut something close to three minutes out of it...FWIW it's supposed to butt right up against the next track "Oldie Bear" but you can't really do that in an…

Worked with a couple of college interns last year who'd never heard of any band I like. I felt like an asshole bragging about going to shows that happened 20 years before they were born. Lyrics: Oldie Bear was there at woodstock Dancin…

Arctostyle Techno

I wrote the backing track a couple years ago after watching the documentary “It Might Get Loud.” It somehow evolved into a li’l tribute to Bob Dylan (Bob really deserves so much better). The words allude to a number of Dylan’s songs: “Like a Rolling…

The second song for my ridiculous post-RPM Challenge album in a month yet again thing. I was working on a guitar part for another song when I played the riff for this by accident. I dropped everything and made sure I had it recorded. I was…

My post-RPM Challenge plan is to just keep going. Here's my first March 2020 Challenge song. I am trying to go much more raw and low-fi than usual. One guitar straight into one amp. No doubling, not extensive overdubs. Same with the vocals…

An angry little tune about the pres(id)ent situation. EOB strat>russian big muff pi>guitar disruptor>ibanez DE7 delay Isolation Quarantine But people all around The sickness of not caring No empathy to be found Bail out banks…

Track #7 - Forgiven Sinner - Live @ Dr. Jack's

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Track #1 - Forgiven Sinner - Live @ Dr. Jack's

This one came solely as the chorus melody and the basic hook "So I'll sing my song for Carolina" It's all I had for months, but I thought it was a good chorus line so I kept humming it to see if it would sprout further ideas. The mid section is…

The chorus riff came first, then the verses' lyrics. Then the structure. It sounds like 1981 to me, so I just ran with it.

This one came to me as I was sleeping on a plane, delayed on a tarmac. I dreamt that McCartney was singing this, sort of. I came out of the dream abruptly when the pilot said we were finally cleared to take off. I racked my brain to figure out…

I have had this riff for a while. It needed a song. It needed cowbell. It got both, and it's a great song to drive to.