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monday song #59: rachel rides the short bus

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “don’t move. i’ve almost got your left eye.” kevin does as he’s told, watching rachel scribble and erase, scribble and erase. “are you almost done?” she focuses on the sheet of paper in front of her, “every time you move, you make it take longer.”

monday song #10: fall down

[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 [...]

monday song #9: the queen of spades

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   i’ve had the basic melody and chords for this song for some months now. the original chorus ended “she’s a star of stage and shingles vaccines,” which i still enjoy, but try as i might, it just wouldn’t spawn any lyrics i liked.

monday song #7: and here i’m standing

[Audio clip: view full post to listen]   the seventh installment and first of 2009. i wrote and recorded this one a week before the first monday song was released. the musical idea that kicked this off was the opening piano with the A moving up to an unstable Dmaj7. (it’s somewhat rare for me [...]

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 [...]