More (Lover Again)
A sensual song written for lovemaking, described by the artist as loopable ‘baby-making music’ about desire rekindling in the afterglow, presented with its chords, technique notes and full lyrics.
Big Crazy Good
A gospel-blues original song, with full chords and lyrics, about the certain feeling that wonderful things are coming — written the morning of the author’s 2016 birthday — and about openly welcoming that unknown good as a return to one’s true self.
Swimmin’ In My Truth
An upbeat original song, with chords and lyrics, about resilience through hardship — the idea that being rooted in the truth of your soul makes you unshakable, so you can defiantly weather any storm that life brings.
Bring Me Home
An original love song, with chords and lyrics, exploring the idea that home is a person rather than a place — the deep emotional need to return, morning and night, to the one whose gaze makes you feel at home.
More Like This
An original song, with chords and lyrics, about longing for a simpler, freer life — the feeling on vacation, camping or in an RV of wanting to stay in a life without chasing money or things, where you can simply be yourself.
Still With Me
A deeply personal original song, with chords and lyrics, written in grief after the death of the author’s mentor and father-figure — about how those who guided us in life seem to remain with us, still guiding, after they are gone.
Flow With Me
An original song, with chords and lyrics, using the metaphor of a river to explore living with the flow of life — weaving in yoga imagery of flow, pose and breath — and letting go of struggle to be carried where you need to be.
Hey Young One
An original song, with chords and lyrics, reflecting on the beauty of youthful naivety — how the unscarred innocence of the young, though clueless, is a pure state that the older and more scarred can come to envy rather than mock.
Die For Love
An original song, with chords and lyrics, exploring the metaphor that falling in love is a kind of death — the shedding of an old self as new love awakens forgotten parts of us and feels like crossing from darkness into light.
What Home Should Be
The author’s first recorded song, an unplugged love song from the album Finding Zen with chords and lyrics, born from a collaboration with the band Swell Daze and a text message calling a partner what home should feel like.
Lost At A Distance
An original song with chords and lyrics that tries to name what we truly miss about someone at a distance, concluding it is not their voice or face but their touch and the gravity of their actual presence.
I’m A Love You
An original song with chords and lyrics exploring the impermanence of love relationships — the idea that all partnerships eventually end and that leaving, or being left, can be met with forgiveness for both people.