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Concept

Album

Month

Songs about the things I spend my time on. (So no songs about writing music, I guess. Zing!)

A short story, poem, or song a day

This album is a song for song response to the musical genius of the Smiths' "The Queen is Dead" (think Liz Phair's "Exile in Guyville"'s relationship to the Rolling Stones).  This album exists in the modern timeline and knows exactly  how disappointing M******** has become.

All this traveling, over all this water...time to capture the vibes.  This project will unify around the theme of nautical and island travel, with songs inspired (in part) by a 2024 songwriting workshop on a tall masted sailing ship in the Hebrides Islands, with ocean stops in Reunion, Madagascar, Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore.

Inspired by Time by Pink Floyd, further exploring the idea that time is a limited resource. Emphasizing that because of this, we are all destined to be underachievers, so we should celebrate what we were able to accomplish rather than regret all the times we fell short of our goals.

I have the "concepts of a plan", which is to say, 'not a single clue', but I kinda wanna set things on fire lately and have been listening to a lot of nine inch nails, so maybe it will be angry.

not available yet

An album of covers of favorite songs, curated for maximum Ka-BLAM...

The dissolution of winter from an outburst of spring

Protest songs.

There's a lot of stuff going on right now, most of it bad.  It's enough to inspire one to write music about it.

These ain't no Arlo Guthrie folk rock protest songs;  I'm thinking loud, noisy, angry, heavy, screaming protests.  Somewhat inspired by Queensryche's "Revolution Calling" but I can't get that big of a sound.  We'll see.

I'm also going to be on holiday for 2 weeks of the month where I won't have an instrument to play.  So we'll see how that affects things too.

Rock on!!