A Year of Songs

It was the Nixon Era and I was young and angry and I knew this wasn't a very good song

As I wrote in January of 2006, when this song first appeared in A Year of Songs, it's the third

Sometimes you meet someone and it just seems like it's meant to be. That's how it felt when I met

You know how it is. You try to go on vacation but work is always on the phone or emailing

There's something reassuring and familiar and -- get this -- liberating -- in a hangover. That's the way I used

NEW SONG ALERT! Think of this new song as a kind of Gnostic blues song, a sort of House of

Or whatever you call it when your studio is your living room. The world is so big then again it's

I've got a mental block. Well... I mean... that is to say, there's this particular one that's vexing me right

I was hoping for the kind of gritty neo-realism that informed some of the best songs of

Somewhere, a long way away, he heard the alarm on his cell phone ring. On the TV, someone was talking