Inspired by an image of a Praying Mantis on Two Fiddle Head Ferns. Artist unknown.

Mantis On A Fiddlehead

Nobody's Darling String Band - Stones Rag

Some subtle commentary as the war for our country's fate rages on. Do right. 

Written and produced at the Woodshed
© 2023 Woody Mitchell/Orthogenesis Music
Remastered 3/25

House On Fire

A swing tune I wrote years ago. Thanks to Mary for learning it!

Douglas Street   - Mary Gordon, Fiddle; Hilary Dirlam, Guitar

3 Feet to the fire

The night that party went down

My old friend Malcolm Holcombe, who died last year ('24), put this song on his first album "A Hundred Lies" and it became my favorite. It's about following your heart back home. He was a great musical mind and a helluva lot of fun to jam with. All rights reserved/Malcolm's estate.

To the Homeland

Wytheville

Wherever you go, there you are! Does that make the real world illusionary? ... This is a country song about, well, nothing and then some! Tony Prior adds pedal steel guitar, with my ol' partner Tom Kuhn on bass. Written and produced at The Woodshed, © 2015. (Steel track recorded at the Rumble Room.) Reworked 2025 as part of the Woodshed Existential Country series.

47 Miles From Nowhere

Quantum Hick music! The lead track in my "Existential Country" trilogy (see 'em all  in the Playlist directory). This one's about how certain states of mind can warp the time-space continuum in a quantum sorta multi-universe way, if ya know what I mean. Written and produced at The Woodshed, © 2017. Reworked 2025.

I Don't Wanna Go Home

At some point in life, it's too late to start over, so you gotta make the best of what you got left. This one started out as western swing but got jazzier as the creative process unfolded. Tom Kuhn on bass. Written and produced at the Woodshed. ©2019 Orthogenesis Music/  Reworked 2025 as part of the Existential Country series.

3 Feet to the fire

Jimmy Jaramillo