• Don’t Know Why – Unwell

    I spent a week in Wisconsin for a family reunion and unfortunately I was super sick the whole time. Destroyed my voice. I took advantage of it one morning to see how deep I could sing this song. Didn’t sound half bad. Voice is a little low in the mix. I’m just recording with an…

  • Recording Songs…

    Recording Songs…

    I spent this past weekend in McKinney, Texas, with my buddy Andy Guarnera at his studio, Bad Beat Lab. The beats were in fact not bad. The recording process was a lot harder than I expected. I was exhausted by the end of it. And the fingertips on my left hand are basically made of…

  • Old Settler’s Music Festival

  • Fingerpicking good

    Noodling on an older tune idea. No lyrics yet but I wanted to get the ideas down. Also, enjoy my dogs barking.

  • My Rising Sun

    Here’s a song I’m working on. I don’t write a ton of love songs, but this is one of them. Recorded on an iPhone sitting on my desk, just using “voice memos” app. I heard my demons callingbut I swore I wouldn’t goI was shivering and fallinginto what I didn’t knowA lifetime aint worth livingwhen…

  • Pure WordPress

    I wrote this song several years ago to play as a flash talk for a company meetup. The music is from the song “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. But the lyrics are based on the Automattic Creed and capture why I’ve enjoyed working at Automattic for the past eleven years.

  • Any Other Way

    I’m trying to get into a regular habit of recording and posting. Even if it’s just works-in-progress. So I spend a little time before my work day. This one is an original that I like to play on a classical (nylon string) guitar. I think it has a bit of a Bill Withers vibe. The…

  • Drop-D Instrumental

    I bought a new acoustic guitar over the holidays. I wasn’t in the market and I honestly didn’t mean to. But I was at a music store checking out bass guitars and the guy pointed out this used acoustic for me to try. It’s made by Furch, a company in the Czech Republic. I had…

  • Noodling on some chords

    I was noodling around on some chords over the holiday break and decided to record on my iPhone. This basically fell out of me as a fully-formed song. Minus lyrics of course. I’m just recording using the iPhone “voice memos” app and I think the sound quality is pretty impressive. I’ll write lyrics to it…

  • Playing around in open E

    I went to an open jam last week. I was the youngest person there. And I aint that young. The group was a mix of country and blues. I don’t normally play covers, so I don’t know many. I did my best on a couple covers and played a couple originals. One of the guys…