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The Wolves

May 6th 2010

I’ve started a songwriting project this year : write and record one song per month every month. This track here, “the Wolves,” is the first of the project’s output that I’m really happy with…

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Ton petit bébé

November 19th 2009

I’ve been playing this tune for quite a while now. I wrote it for Cécile back when we were on two opposite ends of the Earth (she in France and I in the US), and since then it’s stayed one of both of our favorites. It’s a pretty simple song, as far as the harmony […]

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Con el permiso de los santos (1)

January 28th 2008

Finished Jan. 12 2008, 33 rue viala We’ve just finished the arrangement of singer Eddy Carvajal’s new tune, which includes a bridge that Eddy and I worked on together. We’ve been looking for a solid medium tempo song to include in our new demo recording (to be completed by the early spring, we hope!), and […]

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Green Bean

September 15th 2007

Recorded at in 2002 at Ottsville Studios, Ottsville, PA. In 2002 the Way Blue Bucket started work on its only studio recording, of which Green Bean is one of its most successful efforts. Green Bean had long been one of the favorite numbers at live performances, and we sought to capture some of that energy […]

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Lost & Found (My Heart)

Version 15-9-07, 33 rue viala, Paris In 2005 I moved to France to be with Cécile, learn another language, and experience Paris. In the early months, while getting all my working papers straightened out, I wrote a haiku every morning and then tried to put it to music during the afternoon. The basic structure of […]

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