andy liotta: monday songs

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “not again.” max sits on the couch, a news bulletin has interrupted his basketball game. his roommate looks up from facebook. “what is it?” “another guy killing defenseless people.”

February 21st, 2011 | Tags: country, death, hypocrisy, lonely, madness, murder, sad | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] james lives on fenton street down the block from the empty lot that once held the 7-11. a firehouse is going up slowly. he’s a teenager, but you’d only know it from the library books in his backpack: salinger, the autobiography of malcolm x, arthur c clarke. his [...]

August 2nd, 2010 | Tags: a twilight cathedral, contrast, high school, lonely, rock | Category: a twilight cathedral, monday song | Leave a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] number 29, the penultimate installment of “connect the dots.” mr. sullivan swims back to the day he lost his son. thanksgiving 1985.

September 7th, 2009 | Tags: connect the dots, dying, lonely, loss, memory, prog rock, through composition | Category: monday song | Leave a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] with monday song number 24, I have released as many songs in the past five and a half months, as I officially released in a decade of billie burke estate. the power of deadlines. and simplified production values. and ten years’ practice… i was planning to head to [...]

May 4th, 2009 | Tags: connect the dots, country, dreamy, dying, johnny cash, lonely, willie nelson | Category: monday song | Comments (1)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [show note: i'm playing at the pub at vios next monday, april 6. corner of 20th ave and 65th street. kids welcome. great food. and my music. see you there. 7 to 9pm. no cover. can you beat it?]   number 19. not much to say about the [...]

March 30th, 2009 | Tags: dancer in the dark, gabriela leone, high school, lars von trier, lonely, loss, sad, slice of life | Category: monday song | Comments (2)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Special note: Tonight's show at the Pub at Vios has been moved to next week, March 9. Apologies for the late announcement.]   fifteen songs. four plus months. and I’m just getting warmed up… this week’s song was a case of automatic writing as far as the music [...]

March 2nd, 2009 | Tags: atmosphere, bells, campanile, edgar allan poe, lonely, religion | Category: monday song | Leave a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   [special note: i'm playing a show on monday, feb 2 at the pub at Vios. it's at 65th st and 20th ave below third place books in north seattle. show starts at 7pm. i'll be playing some billie burke estate tunes, a few monday songs and some [...]

January 26th, 2009 | Tags: country, family dynamics, lonely, relationships, sad, willie nelson | Category: monday song | Comments (1)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   the second monday song. when i was in junior high there was a girl named nadine in my wood shop class. at some point, the boys started taunting her: “nadine, nadine, the header machine.” i never discovered the background, but, though she disappeared before high school, she [...]

December 1st, 2008 | Tags: billie burke estate, god, jazz influence, lonely, madness, mark almond, piano as guitar, sad, steely dan | Category: monday song | Comments (6)