Category: Layers of Meta

Never been to Narnia

One sign of how busy I’ve been lately is it’s taken me weeks to share the latest rough mix from my “Pleasant Valley sessions,” something called “Finn’s Song” informally and “Stand Up, Mixer!” inexplicably:

August 24, 2023
Seeing the hindsights

Got back to Megasonic Sound for my monthly recording session last weekend and laid down the basic tracks for a fifth song for my album, “Memory Lane,” with Bill Cassel on bass; myself on vocals, electric ukulele, and acoustic ukulele; David Gans producing and Jeremy Goody engineering.

August 1, 2023
…and into the studio we go

Got a rough demo in the can already!

February 26, 2023
Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music (again)

“Three notes in a scale…”

April 28, 2021
Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music (dance mix demo)

For odd reasons. was tuned to about A 415 when I recorded this. This tune was inspired by a New York Times article from the 1910s:

April 28, 2021
Memory Lane (demo)

Out on a jaunt Seeing the hindsights

April 26, 2021
Memory Lane

Here is the first song in a five-song mini-concert recorded last month and initially posted on ye old booke of faces. This one has lyrics by Peter K. Hirsch: Next up, a bit of early 20th century science history, “Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music.”

April 26, 2021
Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music

A scientist’s dream… Three notes in a scale

April 26, 2021
Standup, Mixer!

Don’t forget that out here Someone loves you every day

April 26, 2021
Carnegie Hill

Shoestring fries at Jackson Hole PLJ playing Billy Joel

April 24, 2021
Chanson

Yes, I drink champagne Because I never feel real pain

April 24, 2021
Down to the Mountain (debut)

I don’t need majestic splendor.

April 24, 2021
Dirty Ol’ Sunshine (debut)

Here is my first complete take of a new song I’m really into:

April 24, 2021
Carnegie Hill

I’ve written a new song and have been learning how to play it. This is the first demo version I’ve felt comfortable enough to share more widely:

December 30, 2020
Bird Song (instrumental)

On my electric solid body uke with a pocket amp and a bit of delay, for the last day of Jerry Week. Also posted at the big book of faces and audio-only on shmow-kwow with a kind of permanent public link for the video up on bop rocks.

August 10, 2020
Ain’t No Sunshine

this house just ain’t no home any time she goes away

May 17, 2020
A town the size of Mountain View

Starting to get this cover tune into shape (a Hunter/Garcia original that debuted on Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, Garcia, and popularized by the Dead):

September 28, 2014
…and I’m already addicted

“the light I… never knowed”

July 7, 2013
Joining the youtube generation

somewhere there’s somebody throwing up (always)

July 7, 2013