This is how I feel going forward. There is no way out but to go through, as Mr. Robert Frost once said...

HORiZON

The Basement Traipse

DOGMAN(feat. Chicken Patty&Preacher Tom) Prod. by Chicken Patty

This is a collection of tunes as a gift to my sweet girl for finding us a lovely place to settle and get stuck together like molasses in honey. "Yeni Bonahozie" is a traditional Ghanaian blessing which accompanies this lullaby for my sweet girl who spent so much time working in Ghana.

Yeni Bonahozie

This is a collection of tunes as a gift to my sweet girl for finding us a lovely place to settle and get stuck together like molasses in honey. Reanimated hair. Just kiddin' right? I like how the whole thing falls into AIC 'Jar of Flies' at 1:23 because everyone needs more 'Jar of Flies' moments forced on them.

Ms. Hairens

This is a collection of tunes as a gift to my sweet girl for finding us a lovely place to settle and get stuck together like molasses in honey. Quoth the Raven: "When's lunch?"

Mr. Munch

Here is a collection of songs from 2009 that resurfaced recently & asked for some fresh daylight.All instruments&voices are me. The chances that we didn't take are now mistakes we didn't make. Huh?

Waiting(Not Too Late)

Here is a collection of songs from 2009 that resurfaced recently & asked for some fresh daylight.All instruments&voices are me.The title letters correspond to chords in each song section,conveniently and intentionally. My thanks to whoever first attempted to slide something other than fingers over guitar strings,i.e. whoever invented slide. 

BAGDAD

Roses arose in rows upon rows;a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Don't let 9:42 throw you. This isn't a TOOL rip your brain out or Pink Floyd squeeze your brain out type situation. It's just gubbah rock to chum the waters in the moat. Dive in.Here there be monsters. First pass engineered May 4-5,2013 at #SWoodmack(EffArDee) Studios,Bangor,ME- many thanks,dude.These songs referenced over 9&1/2 minutes: Toadies"Possum Kingdom"/Jimi"Foxy Lady"/Tom Waits~oh,yea/ Martina McBride"Broken Wing"/Steve Earle/A Perfect Circle"Rose"/#EffArDee "Old Grey Mare"/ *GREEN DAY "JESUS OF SUBURBIA"*/Red Hot Chili Peppers:"My Friends/Aeroplane/Walkabout/Can't Stop"/Beck(Mutations)/Hank,Jr."Family Tradition"/You Are My Sunshine...

INANUTSHELL

Improvising at Big Sound Studios,Westbrook,ME 1997. File under archival noodles.

Orrs Island Nor'easter

When the snow flies in April in the Northeast, you just throw middle finger and lay tracks.Then the little prevaricating prognosticator groundhog comes around for some make-up sex and you gotta tell him to frig right the hell off.Even when he soft-eyes and offers you his shiny baubles.Right the hell off.And I say "Good day,sir!" and shovel one (last)more time...

April Fool (Marmot's Shadow)

Acoustic porchestra cave dirge. Eight instruments: baritone uke,bazouki,banjo,mandolin,manjo,Maccaferri plastic 6-string from the 50's & two acoustics.

Implausible Undeniability

Just coughing this up again because it was lost @ the bottom of my page & that feels a shame. Winter 2016. The syrup for the lap steel was locally sourced but unsustainable, despite the added sustain.
     *(Interesting sidenote: in the roshambo of nature,owl covers chipmonk. Winner,winner,chipmonk dinner.This plays out in our yard at night, cruelly but fairly...)


The Weirdnii

My '89 Alvarez-Yairi DY75dcb is an adaptable companion.Normally lives in "DADGAD" but I occasionally push it down into the inky mire without rattling the strings off the frets too much. This "Ok...go!" in C tuning gets a lil sloppy tappy slaphappy in the middle but, hey-(he said "Butt Hay")...it was live...& brain to fingers is elusive magic. Illusive magic? Both...

CGCFGC(Improvising in a Low Tuning)

It's hot. Outside. The Seattle Meth Mailman is on duty. Out of uniform...We went to a Mariners game & decided to walk back to our AirB&B, seemingly all uphill every step,& eventually ran across this mailbox guardian. I love how much red he used to be wearing before it got too hot.Meth is an unruly companion.He has nothing at all to do with this song,but the image had to be captured&shared... Flexbomb.

Flexbomb of my Dynoheart

With apologies to Robert Louis Stevenson, a fine & manivaried author with his own particular demon skillset to wrangle with as I am to understand.You can't always stifle Mr. Hyde. Here's to two heels firmly planted in the hallowed middle ground between him&him.

The Strange Case of Dr. Griskin & Mr. Munch

Mr. Brownpants has displaced himself 3 times:first from the stone wall,then from the pile of stumps(that went in the firepit),&now he lives in the brushpile...which is going into the firepit...so he is distrustful and leery of me, and the brief rapport I thought so promising...is probably up in flames.He will probably move into the woodshed(contents of which will slowly be emptied into woodstoves)& his winter torpor so fully disrupted that he may leave our property for good.But I hope not.He's pretty cool. 

Mr. Brownpants(Theme from Dry Hill)

This is weirdnii captured on one electric guitar with no overdubs & lo fi equipment. I like how it rolls through some other instrument impersonations in the middle, before finally running out of steam near the end because I couldn't improvise anymore...

C.C.D. (Colony Collapse Disorder)

Drenched in cheer, this tune somehow projects optimism fending off attack. In the complicated matrix of emotional pulchitrude, this one 's right up there.

Revocation Anxiety

I felt compelled to throw up something on my page because I don't have any new material...

Higher Ground(Lost&Found)

Sliding a chord form up and down in an interesting rhythmic pattern. A Martin OOO-15 S backed with some slide.

HalfMental

This is music that I created. Press the big orange circle with the white arrow to hear it. Enjoy.

Dry Hill

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