I’ve been chugging along creating new music this year, but I haven’t been as public about it the past few months. I’ll make an exception for today In Ukranian traditional folklore, the Domovyk is the house spirit, also called khoziain, or master of the house. I wrote and recorded this guitar instrumental specifically for the [...]
LYRICS below. LYRICS: Well, the end times are here, May as well have a beer… We’ve had a good run, But we’ll all disappear… Tomorrow. It’s the end of the road, And the seeds that we sowed, Will be forgotten … When the sky implodes…. Tomorrow. At least I don’t have to do That performance [...]
Last week, I bought a mandolin at Old Town School of Folk Music, stopping at Taco Bell on the way home where I heard TLC’s “Waterfalls”. The song stuck in my head, so when I got home, I learned 4 chords and did this… Stick with it, there’s a VERY SPECIAL guest who joins me [...]
In honor of the supposed upcoming Snowpacolypse, thought I’d share a relevant recently written song Lyrics below the video! LYRICS: During morning coffee & toast I was dreaming about the west coast And trying to think of reasons we should stay… …Here in this morbid cold And when I saw that bread mold (It) was [...]
Initial sketch of a new silly ditty (a Zamboni-themed song was requested by @Valya). LYRICS below the video! LYRICS I drive my Zamboni to work I drive my Zamboni to school I drive my Zamboni to the bank clerk. If you saw my Zamboni, you would drool. I drive my Zamboni to Starbucks I drive [...]
New song I wrote this week “Empty”… LYRICS below the video. The word “empty” was stuck in my head when I got in from a long walk with the dogs at midnight, so I started riffing on the word “empty” and birthed this one over the next 30 minutes… not quite my normal fair… maybe [...]
“The Daily Planet” from Love’s highly acclaimed but kind of under-heard album Forever Changes. You should get this record if you don’t have it: http://amzn.to/f49rmi I was going to stop doing these covers, but recording covers of obscure ’60s tunes is a fantastic thing to do while procrastinating on doing some painting that I promised [...]
The triumphant return of Bad Day at the Circus (i.e. Mary joins me) for a Vampire-Vineyards-wine-induced trainwreck version of Steve Miller’s 1982 classic “Abracadabra”! For you crazy youngsters not familiar with this original tune, check it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH850qp85Zk
It’s 104 Songs original #5 and song 21 overall…”Outsourced My Love”. The concept originated at a party this weekend…and it wasn’t 100% my idea…but I wrote the concept down in my phone and wrote this initial rough draft last night! LYRICS BELOW THE VIDEO! LYRICS Outsourced my love life, logistics are tricky. Not as satisfying, [...]
So I walk into Starbucks on Monday and the damn red holiday cups are out already! I was dismayed that it was already time to be all bah humbuggy. So I decided to pull out a song that I wrote ten years ago for the next “104 Songs” cover (i.e. I won’t count this as [...]
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