Demo of a song I wrote and recorded in one week for season 1, episode 9 of a songwriting challenge with Hatori.  Sometimes I write songs about things I'd like to hear when I'm feeling discouraged so I can sing them to myself.

Hold On

Demo of a song I wrote and recorded in a week for season 1, episode 8 of a songwriting challenge with Hatori.  I was reminiscing about a trip to Mont St. Michel and felt inspired to write about it.  This features all acoustic instruments, including the accordion.  I inherited it from my wife's grandmother and enjoy looking for opportunities to fit it into songs.

Normandy

Demo of a song I wrote and recorded in one week for my podcast with Hatori, "They Can't All Be Bangers" (S2 E1).  I wrote this as an encouragement to myself to get up in the morning and greet the day with joy and optimism on the days when I just wanna hit the snooze button.  If I every play this live (or re-record it) I'd transpose it down 1/2 step or so.  I generally like the verse and pre-chorus, but I really don't like the chorus.  Pretty much at all.

Let Your Colors Fly

Demo of my song for season 2, episode 5 of "They Can't All Be Bangers", my songwriting podcast with Hatori.  I wanted to create a song using only my voice for instrumentation.  The lyrics are a short rumination about a conversation I had with a woman on a plane about reincarnation.

Palingenesis

Good Heart (Week 12 ASAW)

This is a demo of "Never Know When to Quit".  I wrote this in one week for season 2, episode 4 of "They Can't All Be Bangers", my songwriting podcast with Hatori.  The lyrics are based on a songwriting prompt she gave me for this week.  Generally I think this is a nice framework for an eventual good song, but I think some of the lyrics are still pretty clunky.  I also struggled finding the best key, as I played this in open tuning on my guitar and there's only so much capo space on the neck.  I had a lot of fun writing this one though :)

Never Know When to Quit

This is a demo of "Slack", written and tracked in one week for season 2, episode 2 of "They Can't All Be Bangers" (my songwriting podcast with Hatori).  I reflect and write often about wrestling against defects in my character, and about the frustration of not being able to consistently live out my values.  I am not able to be the person I would like to be.  I liked this one, if nothing else because it was nice to get some of this off my chest, but also because it's a fun song to sing and play.

Slack

Demo of my week 3 song for a song-a-week challenge with Hatori.  I like several things about this one, but generally found the chorus to be unsatisfying.  I may go back to it and refine someday, but I've got too many other good ideas in the hopper right now!

Thresher

Demo of my season 1, week 4 song for a song-a-week challenge with Hatori. This is a really fun song to sing and play, and I had a good time writing it.

Freight Train

Demo of a song I wrote for S2 Episode 7 of my songwriting podcast with Hatori, "They Can't All Be Bangers".  This was a last minute song, as I started writing it about 2 hours before our deadline.  I'm not in love with it, but they can't all be bangers.  I may come back and salvage what I can, as it might end up being a nice coffee shop or open mic song.

Cover of Yung Bleu's "You're Mines Still"

Youre Mine Still (Cover)

Singer-songwriter based in Denver with Jazz, R&B, Indie, and Pop influences. 
Debut EP released Aug 8th 2021.
Just happy to be here ✨

Good Heart (Week 12 ASAW)

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