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Revenant (White Vapors Mix)

Day 2 of trying to write music alone with a 9-month old puppy. I’m pleasantly surprised that I’m getting anything done and, in part, it’s because we took our first trip to an off-leash dog park yesterday. She got to run around, and then she slept a lot while I worked on this piece. I haven’t gotten much sleep so far this month, so I hoped to get this done in a reasonable time. We’ll come back to that. While I was cleaning up my project file for Don’t Fight the Funk, I found a stray instrument track with a … Continue reading

Flip Six Three Hole

After the marathon of Falling, I didn’t have the energy to write a song. Not that I wouldn’t have changed my mind about that if any lyrics had shown up while writing, but there’s a level of stress-relief involved when I’m starting my session with the intent of doing something instrumental or ambient. It’s not so much that writing songs is stressful, more that I’m eliminating the stress of feeling like I have to write a song. This is a big… huge… massive benefit of having participated in Song-A-Day. Not only have I largely gotten rid of the preciousness of … Continue reading

Change Your Behavior

Hey, remember when I said that I’d learned that it was normally better to be mercurial and opaque when it comes to lyrics? Not to hit people over the head with the obvious hammer? Yeah. I kind of ignored that for this one. It should be no surprise to anyone who knows me that fall pretty squarely into the libertarian camp when it comes to political leanings. I’m not a purist – I recognize that structure is needed – but I think the government is best that governs least. Actually, I recently found a fantastic quote that captures where I … Continue reading

This Isn’t What You Think It Is

Despite my best intentions to start reasonably early in the day, dog sitting and hanging out with the neighbors led to me not getting this one rolling until later in the evening on the 31st. Once again, I’m trying to work a day ahead. And in increasingly typical fashion, the song you hear today is a completely different one from what I was initially working on. This often happens to me and in the past, I would have just trashed the original project. The normal process is I find a sound or melody or hook that sounds interesting and start … Continue reading

Red Hill Danger Zone

Note: This post was written in 2025 and backdated to appear on the day I wrote and published the track. In past years, I’ve had “requests” come from friends to try different styles or write about specific topics. One of the most successful of these was 202’s Spicy Bee. I never guarantee that I’ll actually take the request – Song-A-Day is already stressful enough on its own without having to satisfy an audience, and inspiration isn’t always a predictable thing. I do, however, try my best to at least give   it a try. This year, the request was “do … Continue reading