Oct 17, 2023
The Prelude: When I play this, I always open the piece with a very straight version of the instrumental guitar line before playing it again with more improvised movement and complexity. I wanted to honor that somehow, but to give it a different sound, as well. I...
Oct 16, 2023
A new collection of songs. Not instrumentals or soundtracks or improvs or whatever… Songs. It’s been a while. It’s been a long while. That gulf in time has made this a strange little collection, honestly. It is really two groups of songs. The first three songs are...
Oct 15, 2023
About twenty years ago I recorded an EP that, as I listened back to the recordings for the recent Remasters project, I found to be the cleanest and most “professional” recordings I ever made. This is the collection that would eventually end up being called “We Got Our...
Aug 1, 2023
This is a song about the end of something. This is a song about the Lake Michigan shore line. It is very much a Chicago song. It’s a song I still pull out and play live on occasion. And I play it for myself quite often. Interestingly, I now play it with some slightly...
Aug 1, 2023
This is the lead song from an EP that was a bit of an end of an era. It is cleaner and more coherently produced than anything that was leading up to it – and it would be the last time I took that approach, really. From here the full band sound would pretty...