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Just finished penning a song this afternoon that I’d started last month. It’s called Away, and is pretty much in standard country time. Like many songs I write, I started this one on the drive into work. I didn’t have my recorder with me that day, so I had to use the voice memo on [...]

 Songwriting is a curious process. As songwriters, we often fall in love with ideas, only to later feel betrayed by their obscurity, or perhaps by thinking they suddenly turned into something other than we originally intended, as if our absence from it makes the thought weaker, less accessible. But absence does change things, including art.

is looking for the sun…hoping for a melting period. # in the words of Bobby Dylan, “My head feels like it’s gonna explode.” # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Here are the words to Green Pine Grove (because you asked!) Green Pine Grove  She came away soft as ink on paper’s face the rain begins and never ends, The swollen creek is overfilled the flowers pushed their way into the beaten soil I never shook the rust away, the steel’s decay of tractor wheels and  torn up [...]

had to cancel a show at Elysium Arts on 2/27. Look for rescheduled date soon. # just changed his Twitter account over to martinengland. # Ready to make like Flintstone. # plowing through Tuesday, thinking about Friday. # I am trying to get folks to comment on my shit. Comments, please! # adding the Twitter [...]

  Today is the fourth anniversary of my father’s death. Much has changed since that fateful day. I now view everything as a resource, including both time and personal energy. These resources are precious and are not to be wasted. Losing your innocence to death is hard knowlege. It’s unforgiving but powerful, life altering in [...]

Just finished watching The Lives of Others. Most amazing film I’ve seen in quite sometime. It’s interesting to me that those who support the Patriot Act are the same folks who call liberals “socialists.” Anyone who supports this condemning piece of legislation should also watch this movie as a quick reminder as to the importance [...]

My show at Elysium Arts Folk Club scheduled for Friday, February 27th has been canceled. Look for a possible rescheduled date in March. At this point, it appears my good friends Jeff Hawkinson and Courtney Brocks will still be performing. You can check out their website for updates.