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...
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...
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...
