Trainsongs #1 (for John Fahey). This bit of absurdity is a John Fahey City of Refuge era thing recorded lightning fast during an Immersion Composition Society session (I was part of New Lodge and Icono Lodge).

A good mix was being held captive by an ancient ProTools version determined to delete major sections. I was finally able to rescue most it and had Joshua Tree’s Jim Austin contribute some great Rock-a-billy upright bass.

Remember (Walking in the Sand). The Bodice Rippers was a great band I played in (and named) during my Oakland, CA days. Megan Fesnske is a star of a singer and my buddy Chris Cummings writes great songs. This classic is, of course, not one of them but a band fave tracked at one of our early recording sessions and recently mixed. I did a sort of dark Steve Cropper thing on guitar. The video became a 2020 Pandemic project, made from old footage I captured in Rhinebeck NY, Storm King Art Center and Bombay Beach, CA

In The Pines. This was recorded in my friend Nina’s living room in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2019. Our mutual friend Eva is the singer for Tabu, the biggest pop band in Slovenia and this is one of her favorite songs to sing. I was messing around with a spacey ebow version of the chord changes when she grabbed a djembe and just went off. I made the video after escaping the desert for the mountains and pine trees above Palm Springs sometime during ‘lockdown’ in 2020.