You all know I don’t do political songs very often, if at all — I’ve always felt too ill-informed, or that the issues moved too fast for me to beat the pace of obscurity with the recording/releasing process. It took this heap of shit-covered shit to push me to a place where not only were…
…so the other night, I’m sitting at Sidetracks, waiting to go on and do my thing. I’ve tuned into the fact that while it doesn’t matter how few people engage me, even one person digging what I’m putting down can make me more confident, which makes me play a lot better. Sometimes, playing in bars,…
Hi Everybody! I’m playing a lot these days, even though it doesn’t always show up on here. The main crux of my shows lately have been these kind of last-minute cover gigs that my friends have been giving me — over the last few months, I’ve been playing a lot with Phil Cimino and Ricky…
The time is no-longer nigh — the time is now, when you can purchase, download, sync, downright “own” Two People Made This Mess. It has been one year to the date since Brandon and I had our first in-earnest session for this album, after 200 of you decided I should get to make it and…
I just want to take a second out to thank everybody for the outpouring of good will and kindness I’ve been privy to over the last 24 hours. Whenever one of these stories about me and my misophonia come out (ICYMI: here’s the link), I worry about the internet and the way things get with…
Like many sculptors, I have a tradition of adding one last WHACK at the end of my album-making process: in this case, it was this thing. PAUL COUNT: 5 (three lead vocals, one bassman, one falsetto) I improvised this song in its entirety and tacked it on to the end, unlisted. It’s just a stupid…
I… I don’t know. Is it cute? Is it good? I can’t. It’s…. Why did I do this? I know it’s bad form to rip things apart that might be your favorites, but this is just kind of silly. OK, let’s dive in. I guess there was somebody I was trying to get to just…
Before I start: I am not trying to advocate Comcast. No way, no how. What I am saying is that Ryan Block straight up tortured a human being, and we are maybe not seeing the third side of the story. We’ve all been listening to this call today: ….Man, it is gut-wrenching. For me, though,…
Every songwriter has their trump song — the one they pull out when they know it’s time to wow the other songwriters. Before I had Under My Nails, I had this song to fill that function. Just before I fell into my first, misguided long-term relationship, I had a brief window of opportunity with a…
I’m not sure if my voice was this brittle back then, or if the tape is a bit sped up, but every attempt I made to regulate it made it sound like a different mutant, so what Keith Irwin’s copy yielded is what we have: There were different little triumphs before I started playing out,…