Category: Posts!
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Cold Like Money
A hypothesis on how wealth and privilege can grow to greed and detachment if a person isn’t careful about taking things for granted.
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Hey Maggie
A song for the best mom a singer songwriter like myself could ask for. She bought me my first guitar, she paid for two years of guitar lessons, she even forced me to take piano lessons when I was far to young to appreciate how great a gift it was, gaining that knowledge so early…
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The World That Fell to Pieces
My friend and fellow songwriter Matt Boland has a song title “What a Day for the End of the World”. My song shares a theme, creating a dramatic scene of who you’ll be spending your last moments with as the apocalypse consumes the world, though it was also inspired by meeting somebody who was a…
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When the Cover’s Blown
Having the commitment to stick with group and see it through hard times and conflict is not easy, and certainly a commendable trait to have. That being said, I think it can be just as hard know when to walk away sometimes. This song is about a short lived stint I had with a cover…
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Hanging On
Truthfully, I’ve been dreading recording this song since I started the project. I know there’s been older songs that I’ve felt the need to update, but none more so than this song. It’s a song from college, pining for someone who didn’t return feelings of affection. Very typical, might of have been my first in…
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What’s in a Name
A song inspired by a very good friend and fellow musician. This friend had accomplished a certain level of success after branding himself a particular way. However, due to said success, he also felt trapped when an eagerness arose to branch out in different directions with his music. His solution was to drop his brand…
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One in a Million
Influence by Billy Joel’s Innocent Man album (Uptown Girl, Tell Her About It, etc.), I took a stab at writing something a little more poppy and uplifting than a lot of music. The tricky part was finding a good tempo and rhythm to make the song sit right with just an acoustic guitar.
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Broken Hearts
This song is about my sister. There’s a lot of inside jokes and me poking fun at her, but all in all, it’s a tribute to her badass-ness. It’s was also a big writing triumph for me, as it was the first time I started with the guitar part and then put words to…
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Love Sick
We’ve all made poor relationship choices, right? We’ve all pined and stressed and lost sleep over a special someone who did nothing but treat us like dirt and string us along. We’ve ignored the advice of our reasonable friends who were right when they said “you’re better off without him/her!” Why don’t we listen? Why…
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Small Talk Blues
The joys of working in the service industry. “How about that weather? Crazy, right?” “How about them politicians? Crazy, right?” De Ja Vu all over again. I can’t really blame the customers. Most of them aren’t there with engaging conversation on the menu. They’re just trying to politely (most of the time) fill the void…
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