This is an oddball of a tune. It’s one that I forget about from time to time, only to pull it out again, remember I really like it, play through it a number of times… and forget about it again. Yet, it’s hung around, gotten under my skin, made me think about it, made...

So this is one I hadn’t panned to do, at least not this early. There is a different vibe to the electronic drum based recordings from the first two albums in the remaster pile. They aren’t as tight and not as direct but also lack the folk band looseness that comes at...

There really was a Rue Steet once. Ok, actually it wasn’t Rue Street. I can’t remember exactly what it was. It was something like Rue Drive or Drive Rue. I checked Google Maps and found a very old street view that MIGHT have ALMOST shown the sign… but it’s fogged out....

The end of 2000 and beginning of 2001 saw a South Bend return. Well, perhaps a layover. I left Bloomington and, while waiting to point toward whatever was next, I stayed in a room in my parent’s house by the St. Joe river and actually recorded a couple of albums. Most...

It is Wicker Park just after the turn of the millennium and the cameras of MTV’s The Real World are chasing their stars across Milwaukee and North Ave. complete with stylists and portable lights, and the resident young, gentrifying hipsters are chasing the crews with...

Let's start the remasters collection with a recording that I think only I like. Just to be contrary. Dover Beach is from 2004 and included on a collection of recordings known only as Songs 2004 (fittingly, I suppose). It was recorded in Albany Park, Chicago. It is a...