Emily's song for aging punk rockers, played on a Cigano GJ-15
This month is a song that steals its verse from a poem by Emily Dickinson, its chorus from a song by Nick Lowe (by way of Elvis...
A Pretty Good Day for a Vega C-66
This month I revisit a song I recorded as an instrumental for Red Wiggler. They have a wonderful promo video (see above) celebrating...
Things you do to me, played on a Maccaferri Islander guitar
This month I got the little plastic guitar out again, and played a song I wrote for Claude Pate. It's a petite little pop song, and I...
A Matter of Dues, Playing and Singing the blues on my Vega E30 D
March finds me pairing my "newest" guitar, a 1963 Vega E30D, with my recent woodworking project, a Fender Showman amp head, to take a...
Lock and Dam 13 on a Telecaster
February is a cruel month, so I chose a cruel song to play on my recently upgraded Telecaster about a guy, a girl, and how things go real...
Geologic Time on a Giannini Craviola
January was busy, and I only just managed to post a song to my YouTube channel in the very last hour of the month, so I am writing this...
Utica Crossing (the pallbearers song)
This month I dig deep into my roots playing a waltz I wrote to memorialize the passing of my great grandmother, Lola Clark Pratt...
Stay, the poem Hinterhof by James Fenton set to a jazz melody
This month shows me trying my hand at writing and performing a jazz standard of my own invention. I even got all dressed up like Frank...
Chalk it up to fate, Claude Pate on a Telecaster
It's a twofer October as I dip back into the Claude Pate repertoire for a song to make up for September's lack of a blog post, and so I...
No. 1 Groovy song for Mia and Odile
OK, so I somehow missed the month of September. Just because I didn't blog, doesn't mean I wasn't busy musically...I wrote this cool...
