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love + strange horses
I’m convinced my soul was constructed to belong entirely to a life of making songs, just as the cowboy’s was to rope calves and the sun was made to lay its palm over the window in my studio this late...
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aureole
I opened my guitar case today, looking for some typewritten lyric fragments inside and remembered: I acquired this beautiful instrument with solid quilted maple back and sides 12 years ago. Putting my...
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artifacts
I loved museums when I was a boy, and I still do. The great ones in New York City, especially the Natural History Museum, were places of wonder to me. Some shows last week along the southern Atlantic...
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a music windeo
win·de·o ˈwindēˌō/ noun A. the recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images through a closed window of a moving car. B. recording of moving visual images made digitally or on...
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a love song
I turn the dial on my car radio searching for the latest love song. Listening to it now, I can’t help but feel it casts a benevolent spell. N’s voice moves lighter than air, like a hummingbird...
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a crooked road
A sense of profound heartbreak is palpable throughout M’s record, but so is a feeling of hope: her sweet, clear voice, by turns melancholy and resolute, makes heartbreak a little bit easier to take....
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01:22
When I dress to go out, I usually end up taking off the leather cuffs I have put on … or the vest, or the belt, or the hat. This sort of thing occurred to me when I was writing something last week for...
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autumn spice mix tape
Autumn, it is said, carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. I hope this indie autumn mix (best served with the first hot chocolate of the season) will help you feel the explosion of...
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10 little crayons
This week I’m choosing the sequence of the songs for G’s next record. I have contributed six of them. There’s a lot of data in the brain that informs the song sequence on an album, but essentially it’s...
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that’s beautiful
My friend Ryan stopped by this afternoon. I played him a song I started recording last week. (I’ve got an acoustic guitar, a lead vocal, and a temporary background part on it so far.) “That’s...
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