In 2006 I wanted to focus on learning to write songs. I was already a professional musician, but I only played other people's music. I wanted to make my own, but I really didn't want it to suck.
Most people aren't born experts at anything, and the only way to get better is to keep trying. So I set up a deadline for myself: I would try to make one song every week. Or if not an entire song, I would at least work on an idea or a sketch.
To keep myself accountable to this deadline, I decided to publish my attempts on the internet.
I kept to this experiment from March of 2006 through the end of that year.
Some of my work was pretty lame. All of it is archived here.
I found that making songs week after week helped me figure out what I wanted to say and how I preferred to say it, and there were enough songs I was proud of
that I decided to record them properly. The result is my first solo album, Saints of the Lost Cause Saloon, released in 2008.
In January of 2010 I decided to back to the weekly habit of songwriting and posting a new sketch once every week. All those songs can be heard on this website, if you keep clicking back to previous pages.
In January 2011 I released Lacemaking, another full length album of original songs, along with four different crafts projects that you can make yourself!
It features the lovely Nice Guy Trio.