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On Opening Day (Fernando Valenzuela)
I was 11 years old and baseball-obsessed when the Dodgers won the 1981 World Series. The late 70s had been difficult: we made the Big... Read More
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April
2020
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Same Music, Different Words
In January 2016, I wrote a song that just didn’t work. That shouldn’t be surprising since – over twenty-five or so years – I’ve written... Read More
13
June
2018
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Wedding Songs
I was invited to two weddings on the third Saturday in June, and I’m not one of those people who can be in two places... Read More
29
June
2017
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David Crosby
Twitter is great for conversations with people you don’t know and who may be inaccessible because they’re famous, live on another planet, etc. For example, I... Read More
08
February
2017
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Tolstoy (The Song)
In honor of Tolstoy’s September 9th birthday, I made a lyric video of the song from my second album: Tolstoy would be 188 if he hadn’t... Read More
09
September
2016
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Bad Business
I wrote Bad Business – the 8th track on my new album, Lost Soul – in early April 2011. A slow-but-lively waltz in the key of C,... Read More
23
April
2016
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Custom Songs
As part of my Kickstarter campaign in June 2015, I offered to write customized songs. $500 seemed like a “priced to sell” contribution level, if you consider that... Read More
12
December
2015
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Bolted Down
I don’t remember much about writing Bolted Down, a song that would become one of my “hits.” It was when I was living in New... Read More
29
April
2015
