An older song that was originally inspired by Prefab Sprout's "Goodbye Lucille #1 (aka 'Johnny Johnny')" but has morphed into it's current state that's more influenced by Suicide and House of Love.

I elected to pursue my theme for RPM 2010 even though, ultimately, I decided not to take part. So I'm going at my own pace, not trying to produce "finished" works, or to be governed by anything except my experimental muse. The theme I chose…

This is a track I have started sometime around 2004 and just finished it in 2009.

Things always go as planned. Yeah, right.

Written and Recorded: Feb 07, 2010 Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo VII), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks. 2010 RPM Challenge

this is about the time i hung out with my friend in the library. we sat on the floor underneath the towering shelves of the dusty poetry section. we're only humans, just two of them. i turned up the reverb. and double tracked one high and one…

Something you don't often hear from me and that's straight drummin'. On this track I left the original L/R kit track because it just sounded more raw and nasty. Listen close and you'll hear different levels on the high hat. Plus, you can…

This is inspired by Frippitronics. Frippontroncis is I call non-traditional mood music invented by Robert Fripp master guitarist for King Crimson. It involves loops of sustained guitars, in this case using an e-bow. I usually do one of these…

And how was *your* Friday night? Here I try to see just how far I can push 4 chords (that I ended up stripping down to a 1 note bassline).

Day #6 and it's still solo piano. And I think this is the most I've ever written *just* piano before. I do miss patches and polish, but it's all raw material that could be built into something more later on. Or left alone. And for once, this…

Did I mention I'm taping my songwriting sessions? So I now have about 30 minutes of footage of me totally screwing around at the beginning of this session. Listening to Spotify. Playing melodies by ear and such. And then I finally decided…

Well I *had* intended to try doing something different this week. So technically I succeeded. It's solo piano again, but I had to teach my left hand how to play this somewhat syncopated bass line, before I could actually compose against it…

This is our saddest ever song.

When I uploaded this last night I thought it was a failure, this morning I am not so sure. I've just listened to it again and, while it fails to live up to my expectations when I started, there's something about it that I like. The initial…

A pretty little ditty.

My lovely little wife and her Father Lee singing a cover of the 1973 gospel tune Dan Schutte. One track, one take in the front room of South House Studios. Some people call it a "living room".

This is the title track of my RPM 2010 album. It describes how I juggle the bills each week and try to make ends meet. If you know the old joke, if the ends would not necessarily meet but just wave at each other once in a while, I'd be happy.

Used Michelangelo's percussion track.

Track three from the 2010 RPM album "They Are Killers"

My first upload for the 2010 RPM Challenge! I wanted to make a mean-sounding, minimal, instrumental groove track, and this is what I came up with. I tried a bunch of different bass lines, but they all made it sound too busy.

RPM track