“Who Said Life is Fair.” I’m busy recording the stuff I wrote it January, getting ready to release the record I made last year, sitting on more songs than I seem to be able to get to, and meanwhile writing more.
We can debate the wisdom of this, but why not just check out what I wrote today?
#singersongwriter #oldtimey #pianosong #music #awriterwrites
Over the last four days at the Walton Ferry Arboretum, I’ve seen the below notable birds. (Panel numbers beside the names of ones pictured here.)
hermit thrushes (1)
prothonotary warblers (2)
bay breasted warblers (3)
american redstart (4) (my first!)
tree swallows (5)
yellow billed cuckoo! (6)
palm warblers (7)
blackpoll warbler female (8) (a first)
blue grey gnatcatchers (dozens every day!)
goldfinches
orchard oriels
spotted sandpipers
bald eagles
cedar waxwings (finally, after none this winter, strangely.)
eastern wood peewee
yellow crowned night heron
indigo buntings
red eyed vireos
black and white warbler
field sparrows
eastern kingbirds
kingfishers
nashville warbler, female/ immature (medium confidence)
yellow breasted chats (my first!)
ovenbird (another first)
mystery grosbeak
northern yellow warbler
#birding #hendersonvilletn #tn #birds #migration
Went birding yesterday and got a nice view of a pair of tree swallows taking up home in a nesting box. The day was ruled however by blue-grey gnatcatchers (panel 2). I’ve never seen so many. I believe I’ve ID’d the third suspect here correctly as a field sparrow (sparrows are hard, so many!!). Last shot is a palm warbler.
Spotted, but did not capture, indigo buntings, catbird, orchard oriole. Heard, but did not see, a pileated woodpecker.
All the other usuals were hanging out, too.
The weather was divine. I briefly forgot about the troubled world we inhabit, and the way we are sleepwalking into greater and greater trouble at the direction of big money, greed, venality, and plain, unvarnished stupidity and ignorance, not to mention malice. See how I inserted that little rant.
#birding #hendersonville #tennessee #oldhickorylake #nature
“Dayton, Ohio, 1903.” Randy Newman at his inimitable best. Says so much through what isn’t said. #randynewman #songwriting #singersongwriter #music #dayton
While I’m busy flipping through my catalog in the run up to the release of “Run ‘Til We Can’t Go On,” here’s the title track from 2018’s “Lullaby of Black Sheep,” one of the weirdest and most ambiguously sinister (?) songs I’ve ever written.
#music #songwriter #acousticmusic #folk #bedtimestory
Late at night you can finally see
All this chaos, so orderly
How I wish I could freeze time..
#music #singersongwriter #songwriting #folk #acousticsongs
“Late at Night,” a single from my upcoming album “Run ‘Til We Can’t Go On,” coming 5/28. This clip features footage from two of my favorite Nordic cities, #Stockholm and #tromsø. That’s @adamollendorff on the pedal steel, y’all!
Give it a spin!
#music #singersongwriter #folk
“Fool’s Gold,” off “Lullaby of Black Sheep,” from waaay back in 2018, I think it was. I love this little song.
“Run ‘Til We Can’t Go On” comes out in its entirety on 5/28. #music #singersongwriter #acoustic #folk
“Run ‘Til We Can’t Go On” is out now. It’s the title track of the album, coming 5/28.
Give it a spin!
#music #singersongwriter #songwriting #running #folk
My latest album Run ‘Til We Can’t Go On comes out on May 28th… and I’m already hard at work on the next one, which is going to be amazing. I’m finally making the music I always imagined I could.
Here’s just a snippet of “Echoes” arranged by @kristinfidd .
@foxdenstrings in action y’all! I told them I’d wait til I got home to burst into tears, lol. #stringquartet #singersongwriter #music #nashville
