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monday song #20: the devil’s dictionary

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [show note: i'm playing tonight at the pub below vios in north seattle - 65th street and 20th ave. i'm going on at 7. no cover. kids fly free. excellent food. see all you seattle-ites there. this will probably be the last show for a while.] song twenty. [...]

monday song #12: swept away

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   [special note: i hope to see all of you seattle-ites tonight at the pub at vios. 65th st and 20th ave in north seattle. its free. kids welcome. i start at 7pm. see you there.] with number twelve, we complete the first album. and free at that. [...]

monday song #6: the start of something big

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   number six. that’s an album side so far… i had it in mind to write something with a new year’s theme. and with the world in the state it is and obama promising a sincere effort but no guarantees, i stuck on the subject of change and [...]

monday song #4: walking away

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   after starting with three heavy songs in a row, number four is something of a palette cleanser.  it’s an homage to homages: a kind of 20s music hall number that was a favorite of the psychedelic popsters of the later 60s. mccartney was a master of the [...]

monday song #3: birthday (part one)

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   number three.  the guts of this song – chords, melody, the phrase “it’s your birthday” – came to me a couple years ago on a family camping trip, playing it over and over by the campfire. i imagined paul mccartney singing it, solo, with an acoustic guitar, [...]