Posts Tagged ‘MP3’

Somehow, at year’s end, Leonard Cohen seems to say it best: I bid you farewell, I dont know when I’ll be back They’re moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track But you’ll be hearing from me baby, long after I’m gone I’ll be speaking to you sweetly From a window in the tower…

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Probably fifty percent of rock songs are about being alone, or feeling alone, or being left by someone you love and thus, well, you the idea. I think about aloneness all the time. One’s thoughts are different in isolation. Everything is. Anyway, I was home sick today. I’ve been sleeping, mostly, and reading Chuck Kloserman’s…

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I knocked this one out in no time. I was thinking about this dude in Sioux City, Chase, that I kinda know (via the internet, anyway). Best as I can tell from this fella’s website, he’s a young father of two (one his, one by marriage) wrestling with that tension between growing up, accepting responsibility,…

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Phew. For a minute there, I wasn’t sure I’d ever write a new song again. Well, I guess I just needed some free time.  And I got some today.  I had the day off.  So I picked up my guitar.  And while the chords I was playing weren’t exactly innovative, they sounded new enough.  So…

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It occurs to me just now, sitting here at 9:58 p.m. listening to my new song, that this is the sound of sunshine streaming through my windows on a Sunday afternoon. I started recording this fresh from Easter brunch with my mom, Chris, Jen and Ethan. I wasn’t inspired by anything specific, I just had…

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I was reading Guster’s studio diary the other day and thought, ‘Damn! They’ve got a bunch of great titles for their new album. Wish I’d thought of ’em first.’ See, sometimes a song starts with just a good title, or turn of phrase. My job, as a songwriter, is to be tuned into those good…

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