...watching events in the middle east...

A tune I recorded before my computer crashed the first week into RPM 2011. I recovered this after getting a new computer after the deadline...

This was my last rpm2010 piece. i had recorded the rhythm track in early feb, and put the triple mandolin harmonies on at the very end of feb. i really love mandolin harmonies...this has more of a mediterranean vibe...

A song about my friend's daughter, who knows how to get my attention. She's a real gem.

Inspired from some Dr. Dog music...I like lap steel and trippy music/lyrics.

I was going through a real bad relationship breakup this fall...this is the abstraction of that relationship. Happy ending though, we are patching things up and working on getting back together. Hard to walk away from 15 years of experiences…

Based on some crazy events of my life in the fall. Relationships...so difficult...

More relationship material...in waltz timing...

About a special place...its not called Laurelie, but I liked the lyricism of that word.

Inspired by Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (my favorite reading material). What would happen if Death came for you, like in the series. This is that conversation.

I was listening to Leonard Cohen a lot this winter, and these lyrics sort of came out from there...don't know what they really mean, i was more interested in trying to see if I could mimic Leonard's style, which of course I can't, but this was…

this was my last rpm song...i had a little mandolin riff and threw on the kazoo (which broke in the last verse), and it reminded me a happy bee buzzing around...and there you have it!

This is a live recording of a set I did with guitarist Mike Levine on a University of New Hampshire radio show. This is one of the 'songs' we did. It is a 5-tune Irish fiddle set that was previously done by the great Irish fiddle player Martin…

This was the last song I composed for RPM 2009. I had a riff kicking around all month, then slowed it down and turned on the Lennon filter.

This was a total experimental piece about just making a soundscape. I played instruments I don't really play, and put some thru different effects just to experiment. The Bushisms add some color to what would otherwise just be some noise. I…

This was written for RPM 2009, mostly in January and was inspired by from a mix of current events and personal journey. Lyrics: The Queen of Pearls is wearing diamonds up and down her fingers She holds the door to the castle where memories…

An RPM 2009 song. Well, this was a personal story for me that came about when your past intersects (briefly) with the present. Lyrics: 20 years running through time and I remember all the magic lines that in our younger days we drew…

I heard someone say to an undergraduate class, 'you're on your way to everywhere' and I loved that line. This is sort of a Beatle-esque tune. My friend Mike Levine stopped by while recording a showed me a new jig on the mandolin. I recorded…

The lyrics were co-written with Mike Novak. I sent him the music, and we worked from there. I've done that a bunch with friends from Canada (Me Man Jack - check them out) and its fun to collaborate..

this song was inspired from an ee cummings poem. it was composed for rpm 2009. lyrics: i'll tell you a dream i had once up in the sky blue everything flying away a kite on a string i didn't have anything i was cool you were warm…