Recorded December 4, 2010 in the basement of my old house. I wrote the text as a humor piece I'd read ay open mics sometimes and decided late one night to add some ambient music to it, partly as a recording experiment. Just found it on my hard drive poking around some old folders.

Writers Block

Fastest time between learning a song and recording it for me. This is the third time I've played this. I've always wanted to cover this -- to me, it's Zevon at his soulful best, a side of him that doesn't get enough attention. His name came up in an IM conversation after I'd recorded a couple of other demos, and it came pretty quickly watching a YouTube video of Zevon singing it with Jackson Browne on "The Old Grey Whistle Test." This will get a bit more work someday. But there's something appropriate about learning it in five minutes and recording it at 3:30AM. Enjoy every sandwich.

Mohammed's Radio (Warren Zevon Cover)

The first track on the forthcoming album, Habitual Salvation, due later in 2019. "Pour Me A River" is a song of personal devotion in the context of societal dissonance. 


Recorded live and acoustic at the iZoptope studio in Cambridge, mixed and mastered by Chris Johnson.

Habitual Salvation

Pour Me A River

This popped into my head tonight while I was trying to write something else. Tomorrow, I will try to write this again so I can get that done.

Not sure I'll still like this one after a good night's rest. We'll see.

Worrying Mind

I love Adrian Belew's Inner Revolution album, and worked up this cover a few years back. I hadn't remembered I'd done a kind of scratch recording of it, and just found it on my computer. Given the state of the world right now, it seems appropriate to toss it out there. I am probably happier with the sound now than when I first recorded it. 

Thank you, Mr. Belew!

I'd Rather Be Right Here - Adrian Belew Cover

I wrote this all in one burst early one morning. I may have had better lyric ideas that escaped as I fed the dogs or went through my morning routine -- that may or may not have been the inspiration for this. I am constantly e-mailing myself fragments of lyrics, often just before I go to sleep, because I have too often been lazy and woken up in the morning with only the memory of having thought of something that was great and no memory of the thing itself. I debated whether this was a song or a poem, and when I sat down with a guitar to figure it out, it seemed to kind of fit with just some simple strumming. This is a rough demo I tossed onto Audacity, but I may never try to improve on it. That seems contradictory. Instead, I'll do as the accompanying photo suggests.

An Unfinished Song About Inconvenient Ideas

Nick Zaino is a Boston-based singer-songwriter and journalist. His musical appreciation began as a kid with country music before taking turns through cheese metal, classic rock, folk, grunge, and Americana. All of that influenced his songwriting in some way or another. Take a listen and see if you hear it. Here's A Moon is his first EP. He is currently working on his full-length debut. 

Nick Zaino

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