The first of the older songs and a real flailer of an acoustic guitar piece (as in: the picking style of the guitar line is stolen from “frailing” style banjo picking). When I play this as a solo acoustic song, I play all the guitar solos while playing the rhythm...
This entire collection was probably recorded just to give me a reason to release this song. More than a song, really. It is a tale of uncertainty and loss in the moments and movements of the modern world. A paean to weakness in the face of overwhelming odds. Really,...
The year my wife and I married was the year that Barack Obama was elected for his first term as President. I had already voted for him for Senate (and my guitar case had, among other things, an Obama for Senate sticker proudly displayed), so it felt oddly personal. We...
So, on to the new songs. This is part of a larger, partially abandoned collection of songs built around a central story as a through line. The collection was planned to be mainly electric guitar tunes but, as it went on, several acoustic based songs crept in and,...
This was initially the core of the collection and the first song laid out, instrumentally at least, as a complete piece. All of the songs were going to be based around a very ‘rock band’ sound featuring electric instruments and were all demoed in that format – some to...
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...
