~ MUSIC ~
Our Music is on the Internet.
As it happens, this is also the internet. So it is here. You can enjoy these videos without leaving this gentle sanctuary, or you can go support a hegemonist at either Spotify, Apple, or YouTube (candidly they’ve facilitated this sanctuary, in ways large and small).
Music from “BINGO” is COMING JULY 19!!!
We did another thing. It’s a slightly longer thing. It’s a slightly more personal thing. We hope you like it. It will come into existence on July 19, 2024. There will be many virtual places to find it on earth. Those places include: Spotify, Apple Music, BandCamp, SoundCloud, YouTube, and a host of others. But you may also tap on any of the pretty pictures below and enjoy it right here.
“The Furthest Sea” is the first single and also the first track. It is quite near and dear to my heart because it is my first love song to my best love. It only took 15 years to figure out what to say.
“The Sky / The Ocean” is a simple meditation using a couplet from Clint Smith’s gorgeous poem “Coming Home.” It features the most gorgeous violin you will ever hear, wrought by the singular Claire Wellin.
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“Something Free” features the amazing pedal steel and electric guitar work of Kayla Zuskin, who you may find in her great band Lavender Blue, and also on our track “Field to Sow”
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“American Heresy”
Claire Wellin creates so much magic in these few minutes. Her violin and vocal are absolutely spectacular. I’m so lucky to get to collaborate with her.
Music from “Permission to Dream”
Here are the six best, most-complete ideas that we’ve come up with from the beginning of time until the middle of 2022.
Are you of a certain age? The age that enables you to remember those rose-tinted glory days when music came with liner notes? I was addicted to liner notes. I’m sad they are mostly gone from my life. So I made a very abbreviated version of liner notes. If you’d like to “listen & look” along, please feel free to partake: Liner Notes.
“The Man Who Almost” (from Permission to Dream). Featuring Claire Wellin.
“Field to Sow” (from Permission to Dream). Featuring Kayla Zuskin.
“How We Choose Our Heroes” (from Permission to Dream). Featuring Claire Wellin.
“Sailor’s Share (Younger Man’s Song)” (from Permission to Dream). Featuring Claire Wellin.
“Nervous” (from Permission to Dream). Featuring Cora.
“Leave the Ground” (from Permission to Dream). Featuring Brynja.
Those who Make Us what We are.
I am insanely thankful for the folks I get to work with to make this music. They are incredible artists, that make beautiful, interesting music. Here’s a sampling of their work outside of these hallowed halls…
“Your Hand in Mine”
Youth in a Roman Field
Claire Wellin is a very busy artist. Which makes sense when you get to know the depths of her talent. In addition to her work with San Fermin, she completely knocked me on my ass with her band Youth in a Roman Field. When you are looking for a violin player, and your first exposure to an artist is “Your Hand in Mine,” it is very easy to believe the world is full of magic.
“Trip”
Brynja
In working through a problem I was having in mixing “Leave the Ground,” Brynja suggested I check out “Trip.” Which I thought I had listened to many times, but lord almighty when I put the headphones on and closed off the world to do nothing but listen carefully... beautiful magic!
“Landscape Painting”
Lavender Blue
I got to know Kayla because of her remarkable talent on a semi-unusual instrument (pedal steel), but her talent obviously explodes much beyond that narrow boundary. You can get a beautiful sense of that range on “Landscape Painting.”
Other People Make Music, too.
And I love it. You should too. Herein I share some songs that I consider to be both exceptional and criminally underrated.
“Hurricane”
Possessed by Paul James
This song is a gift to planet earth. First you listen to it, and then you feel somewhere between a little bit and a lot better.
“Bonito”
Jarabe de Palo
I made myself a “BONITO” t-shirt somewhere around the year 2017. I wear it when I am in large crowds, in hopes that someone will recognize it. The fact that I have been, to date, unsuccessful, forces me to confront the criminally-underrated nature of this song. It will also bliss you out!
“Havana Burning”
Dan Reeder
I can get hooked on lyrics. I can’t think of a better written song than this one. It is also a really good go-to song to send to someone who’s like, “what should I listen to?” I have had exclusively disproportionately positive responses with this one.
“Montana”
Pierce Edens
I love ‘road songs.’ I’m firmly the type of person that feels the urge to leave it all behind on a weekly basis. “Montana” captures all of the sentiments that roll up into that impulse … almost too well.