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What the heck is this song about? [audio:shotgun.mp3] Click the big blue button and then check the lyrics if you’d like to follow along… I been trying to call you / get you on the phone couldn’t get you alone/ couldn’t get you at all i was just trying to break through i can’t get…

[audio:halfwayhome.mp3] Halfway Home has been through so many tweaks and different versions over the last few years that I’ve lost count. At one point I had an entire hard drive that was devoted exclusively to this song. It suffered a career-ending meltdown last year and I had to start the song again from scratch –…

[audio:halfwayhome.mp3] Halfway Home is the oldest song on Days Between Stations. The beginnings of this track go back quite a few years, to a New Year’s field trip that I took with a bunch of friends to a remote part of Death Valley National Park. It’s called Saline Valley, and it’s about 50 miles from…

What’s that guy talking about? Here’s your chance to find out. Press the big blue play button and follow along with the lyrics. [audio:halfwayhome.mp3] There was fever in the coal black boots that she wore She danced like a hurricane coming ashore Yeah, the warning came but I was too far gone Tied myself to…

Welcome back to Week 3 of the “hey, check out the new music” blog marathon! This week, it’s Halfway Home, the third song from Radio Nowhere’s debut EP, Days Between Stations. [audio:halfwayhome.mp3] One particularly quotable friend of mine thinks this song “sounds like Elton John on a cough syrup bender”. I’m not sure about that,…

Here’s Catherine Wheel one more time to round out the week: [audio:catherinewheel.mp3] If you want to know a little bit about where this song came from, check this out (SB – this is for you): Catherine Wheel was written on a late, lamented Baby Taylor acoustic, which is a guitar built for the little people…

Here’s the song: [audio:catherinewheel.mp3] Annnnd, here are the lyrics – instant sing-along! (You’ll have to imagine the bouncing ball yourself…) Backseat driver with something to prove she was runnin some daytime night moves she said to leave the radio on rolled out for a cigarette don’t you stay too long/gonna play our song but you…

Click to hear the song: [audio:londoncalling.mp3] Thursday is geek day! If you want to know exactly how London Calling was gently coaxed out of my acoustic guitar to its glorious many-instrumented, multitracked, shiny pop destiny, the next nine paragraphs are for you. Like most of the rest of the songs from the Days Between Stations…

Here’s the song: [audio:londoncalling.mp3] Annnnd, here are the lyrics – instant sing-along! (You’ll have to imagine the bouncing ball yourself…) I been waiting in the airport bar for hours I been wondering if they’re gonna make me drink all day Last call calling on a non-stop back to the heartland Calling on your getaway Every…

This doesn’t have anything to do with music, or songwriting…I just thought it was so fabulous that I had to bring it to your attention. Cows are actually large, beefy…compasses: “German scientists using satellite images posted online by Google Earth have observed something that has escaped the notice of farmers, herders and hunters for thousands…