RELEASES

Children and ghosts

Need a contemplative break from all the noise and chaos?

Children and Ghosts is a meditation on coming and going, existence and absence. Twenty-five minutes long. Nine little songs. One cozy lullaby made of nine ideas.

The songs were recorded on my iPhone in my bedroom—same spot, same chair, same guitar, same mood, over the course of two days. I’d wanted to make something like this for several years — a simple little record with a simple sound—inspired by old Hank Williams recordings. With two exceptions, the songs were all written over a few months last year.

I made this to be listened to in a quiet space. It’s best on headphones, and most affecting when listened to start to finish. The video was recorded in the same place as the songs. 

TRACK LISTING

1. Pedals and Chains

2. Children and Ghosts

3. Gardens and Graves

4. Mysterious Sorrow

5. Too Many Years

6. Poor Man's Dream

7. Walkin' in the Rain

8. Abandoned Mansion

9. Everybody Loves Us When We're Gone

American Pictures

“American Pictures” is the first album I’ve written since I was a long-haired kid in L.A. struggling to get a record deal. It’s about the malfunction of the American dream, seen through the eyes of uniquely American characters caught between their potential and their circumstances. It’s folk music—simple melodies with dulcimer, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and guitar.

TRACK LISTING

1. John F. Kennedy

2. Charity Town

3. Bulletproof

4. The Mailman

5. The Prisone

6. Closer to Lewiston

7. American Picture

8. Housefly

9. Broken Thing

10. Keith Smerage

11. Surprises