Marty and Eric Ott Seacoastal, NH Sign Up Here for one of six 30 min. shows we’ll be playing over six hours. Participating towns: Dover(NH), Somersworth(NH), Berwick(ME),South Berwick (ME), North Berwick(Me), Madbury(NH), Durham,(NH). Ends with a party in North Berwick. All hosts invited.

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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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just added a video of me and my good friend Jeff Hawkinson playing in my living room back in January 2009. Jenny shot the video, so it is in landscape mode. Turn your head completely horizontal and you’ll never know the difference. Jayhawk isn’t actually in the video, but you can hear his rousing banjo.

  Something occurred to me while listening to a discussion about Darwin’s Theory of Evolution on NPR at lunch. It made me think about the evolution of music, and more specifically, rock and roll.

  Just added a few songs from a demo I’ve been working on. Check ‘em out on the Songs page. I recorded these with a Handy H2 Recorder in the walk-in closest at my house, so if you’re expecting perfection, please ignore this post. Some folks have inquired as to what I’ve been up to [...]

Photo of me with Burning Bridges back in 1991.