Music

I am proud to announce my new album, The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone. It features songs that I wrote and recorded, with a different amazing female vocalist singing the lead on each one.

The Beanstalks That Have Brought Us Here Are Gone (2011)

  1. When the Blind Man Rings That Bell (feat. Kaylee Cole)
  2. You Were So Good To Me (feat. Jolie Holland)
  3. Once But Never Again (feat. Luzelena Mendoza)
  4. Whiskey Riddle (feat. Annalisa Tornfelt)
  5. James (feat. Johanna Kunin)
  6. The President of the Chess Club (Amanda Spring)
  7. Ortolan (feat. Myshkin) – Love Drunk performance
  8. Missing Awhile (feat. Corrina Repp)
  9. Awake When I’m Sleeping (feat. Audie Darling)
  10. No One Gives Their Heart Away (feat. Laura Gibson)

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Sleeping on the Covers (2011)

An album of covers requested by different people, including songs from Madonna, The Walkmen, and Fred Neil. Available to you for free.

  1. Everybody’s Talking (by Fred Neil)
  2. That Summer Feeling (by Jonathan Richman)
  3. Fields of Gold (by Sting)
  4. Revelator (by Gillian Welch)
  5. Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush)
  6. May You Never Be Alone (by Hank Williams)
  7. Trainwreck (Glen Phillips)
  8. I Lost You (by The Walkmen)
  9. Killing Moon (by Echo and the Bunnymen)
  10. Human Nature (by Madonna)
  11. Cupid/ Mexican Blue (by Sam Cooke/ Jolie Holland)
  12. Into My Arms (by Nick Cave)
  13. Me and the Devil (by Matthew Fountain)

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A Bird in the Opera House (2010)

A studio album.  In a good way.  Many different guitars, textures, sounds.  Songs about the most famous fruit vendor in the world, the most beautiful town in California, the best place to find a hotel in Cincinnati.  Also, more songs about girls.

  1. Sebastopol – Penny Jam performance
  2. Another Kay Song - official video
  3. Days in my Room – official video
  4. Sleep, Child – official video
  5. I Don’t Believe You – Love Drunk performance
  6. Officer Schoppe
  7. Theresa
  8. Strawberry Man
  9. Semoline – OPB performance
  10. Matrimonial Bed
  11. Asheville
  12. Cincinnati – KEXP performance

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A Narrow Way (2008)

An album recorded in a “classic” or possibly “classy” fashion: the whole band playing together in the room, doing a take while someone in the other room mixes it live to tape.  Mess up and you do the whole thing over.  No overdubs, no punch-ins.

  1. A Narrow Way
  2. Walking Into a Burning House
  3. That’s The Kind of Fruit That You Leave on the Vine
  4. Battleground
  5. Eleanor
  6. Winding Sheet – Love Drunk performance
  7. I Forget My Name
  8. That Tired Tired Lie
  9. Singing The Devil’s Tune
  10. Planters Field
  11. I Know I’m Your Man

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Wool (2008)

An album of piano songs, recorded on Elliott Smith’s old piano before it was loaded on a truck and sent off to some museum.  Quiet, sleep-time music, with odd rustling in the background.

  1. Maryanne – Feels Like Home performance
  2. Power
  3. Bicycle
  4. Luck
  5. Apple Seed
  6. Casamiro
  7. Interlude 15
  8. Hymn
  9. Ponchatoula
  10. Helen
  11. Interlude 1
  12. Interlude 4
  13. Springtime
  14. Lonesome Blues/ Hudson Harmonic

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The 7 Stations (2006)

A diverse album, sometimes a vibraphone shimmies up to the bar, sometimes a banjo saunters by.  Recorded when the band was just coalescing.

  1. 7 Stations
  2. Maybe Cocaine
  3. One Hand Washing the Other
  4. The Red Queen
  5. No Direction
  6. The Whim of the Ruling Class
  7. Barleycorn & Toblerone
  8. We Are All Alone in this World
  9. I Will Swallow the Sea
  10. Life Falling on Soldiers
  11. Seems to Calm the Baby

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