A kind of narcotic nursery rhyme. 

In the summer of my 18th year, I took off to the Northwoods of Wisconsin with 2 unstable friends in a 1969 Impala that had smokestacks coming out of the back. We had some weed, a quarter barrel, and a .22 rifle in the trunk. The plates were expired, and we were all dressed in camo. The next day, my Aunt Betty bailed us out of the Philips jail.

This song is the soundtrack for that summer.

Demo

The Good Drugs

An invitation (strictly consensual, mind you) to a kind of equine adventure. Giddyup.

Ride Me Like a Pony

Halfway to the Moon

My uncle Bob was kind of a Paul Bunyan character. A burly guy with the biggest hands I've ever seen. Instead of a blue ox, he had a yellow backhoe, and he roamed the upper Midwest doing great feats of construction. For a while in the 1970s, when his kids were young, he tried settling down. He opened a service station in Abbotsford, Wisconsin - at what, at the time, was the intersection of two major highways. Here's what I remember about those times.

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Bob's Texaco

(I'm a Little) Rainbow Trout

Northwoods

Rocking Backwoods Fest 2016 with Chris Wagoner, Mary Gaines, and Reid Johnston.

Backwoods 2016

How 'Bout You? (live)

Laws of Falling Bodies (live)

Brad Graham

Break the Grip

A demo for the Engelking album, which spins the tale of my grandfather's odyssey to Hollywood in the 1920s.

Engleking

Money for Candy

A demo of this song about being afraid to fly, with space left for my friend Steve Pingry's cello. Alas, he never got to play on this recording.

Waxen Wings (working mix)

Featured demo from the Palm & Pine CD. An inmate in the Botany Bay penal colony longs for his lass back home.

Two Dollar Broom

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