Believe it or not, this song was written while swimming laps in the high school pool (I had to have the life-guard kid write down lines for me every time I returned from the deep end). Oddly enough, the first line I came up with was "Swimming…

Written while watching a good friend going through the run-up to a divorce. This song isn't a whole lot of fun, and for that I apologize... But when all you have is twenty-eight days, you have to go with what you've got.

In 1979, my father came home from the record store with an album that forever changed my life, Pete Seeger's Circles & Seasons. Before I knew Pete to be the blacklisted folk icon that had been on the humanitarian side of every fight since…

All right, so one of those silly songs needed to find its way onto the album. In an effort to teach the students on my middle school team about rhythm in poetry, I wrote this little bit of foolishness about a fictional character (so yes, you…

"You gotta put your pencil to the paper. Don't bother with the intricate chords. Hell it doesn't matter if the damned thing doesn't rhyme. Write it down. Run it through. Make some noise." These were actually the first words I wrote when…

A blasphemously reverent prayer to the Goddess of Sacred Uproar. The lyrics can be found at bit.ly/PrayerforUs

Power outages, deadlines, and needing to leave home. A Girl Named Sam lends some beautiful vocal harmonies.

I was in a very dark place when I wrote this tune. Now I'm back in the light it sounds very self-pitying, but hey. From 2006 album Too many magpies

Just an old-timey thing I wrote. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies

Another song from the dark period. Don't get involved in messy affairs is my advice! From 2006 album Too Many Magpies

Written for my best mate's first son. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies

Yet another tune from the dark period. To be honest I'm never fond of my slower tunes. From 2006 album Too Many Magpies

Playing with reverberation and stretching, part of a larger ambient piece for the RPM2010 challenge. It uses heavilly effected and modified samples and VST Synplant.

My first ever GarageBand experiment. Not a good mix. Contains a sample of Bob Baker - please don't sue me! From 2008 album Do What I Gotta Do