I saved this song to be the last song I made a video for, as it was the first time I wrote a song that I didn’t second guess when it was done. It was the first time I finished a song and was confident that I had written a good song. I still play…

A song for anyone and everyone who’s ever had a job that made you get up too early to work for too long for not enough money. Work is work, no two ways about it, but when it starts taking too much from you without giving enough back, never hesitate to consider if you really…

My post apocalyptic epic, I was going with a theme inspired by Stephen King’s Gunslinger. The story is the storm is coming, and the two heroes, the rider and the walker are both preparing to face in their own way. The metaphor is that we all have different priorities, different fears and problems and passions that we…

While I have collaborated with people in the past, this is the first time I’ve officially written a full song with others. At a Strangers and Liars practice, Justin Anderson began a jam on the little guitar lick I am nobly attempting at the beginning of this video. From their, he, I, Russ Straub and…

A song from VERY long ago (8 years? 9?). It took a bit to remember how to play it. I think I was trying to write a Beatles song.

This song tells a fictional story of my discussion with a stranger about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s a ballad, and I think on of my stronger ones. I had wrote with the hopes of performing and recording with grandiose vocals on it someday which since then has happened in unexpected ways. I…

Time has the ability to do so much. It can blur the edges and change the details as it passes, but it can also put you at a better vantage point. You start seeing things differently when you’re looking at them as past instead of present. You start seeing the difference between the things you…

So maybe I’m not the social butterfly I should be when it comes to being a musician. Particularly, the front man for a rock band. My days of staying out till 2 were short lived, and any nights of overt consumption were few and far between. So maybe I wasn’t one all that eager to…

Being the wall flower I was, I spent a lot of time assuming girls were out of my league. Even if a girl expressed interest in me, I tended to shut myself off and assume I couldn’t be the kind of person they were looking for, which was a self fulfilling attitude. This song was…

I have lived near water pretty much all my life. For a short while, however, I lived in a little efficiency apartment with a little river right outside my door. It gave me a little understanding of why lakefront property is so expensive. It makes a difference. This is a song I wrote sitting outside…