latest album
These songs are about the shape of love, about the passage of time, about children growing up, about looking for and then holding onto what matters. They’re about trying to resist some of the trends of modernity, which push us farther from the real nectar of life, making us less and less able to feel and appreciate the beauty in the moment we’re here.
Books
Maybe the only thing people do less than listen to full records these days is read actual books. But I often have more to say about my songs. And writing stories offers a lot more real estate, allows for more elaborate details and far lengthier description than within the confines of a few minutes of tight rhyme scheme and rhythm. So I put my guitar down after returning from Corsica in 2010 and tried to type out the tales that led to the songs I wrote while there. 140 Goats and a Guitar is a memoir. It's very personal and confessional. The Free Brontosaurus came next. It's equally emotional and maybe just as personal, though it's fiction and so veiled behind a set of characters, each of whom has a song on Cardboard Boat. That book is a puzzle. You have to figure out which song goes with which character. And thus, I have invented a combination (book and record) that might just appeal to the smallest market subset imaginable. If you're in that subset, though, I think you're the coolest.
