Bill 'Squeaky' Runyan wrote the music, we co-wrote the lyrics and demoed the song long ago on a 4-track. I took his acoustic guitars and backing vocal from that recording and built the rest up around those. Thanks to Steve Toland for providing additional backing vocals as well.

Wrote this one with Kelley Ryan (of astroPuppees fame). I took the vocals from our original 4-track cassette demo and added new instrumentation to it.

Started as a new version of an old song (Ghost), then evolved into something completely different with a whole new set of lyrics. Not sure if it's finished yet?

Kelley Ryan co-write. Sort of a love letter to me Mum, who always wished I would. 

A song about loss, and maybe pushing away the pain of it all. Thanks again to Steve Toland for adding in his backing vocals to this one as well, for that special 'Toland Touch'!

Another Kelley Ryan co-write. Her recording can be found on her brilliant 'little chic tsunami' LP (Manatee Records). This is me 'having a go of it'. 

True story, based on a AP news wire by Ben Fox from 2005. Peter Case had us read and write about it as an assignment in his Songwriter's Workshop II, which I took that year. This was my take on that article. Sadly, even more resonant today than it was then.

Yet another Kelley Ryan co-write. This started as a 2-track cassette demo after the writing session, but before we'd pulled all the lyrics together. I was playing the 'StrumStick' with Kelley on guitar. I've taken that cassette and added some new bits and pieces, and some new lyrics, to that demo.

'Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,/And men below, and saints above;/For love is heaven, and heaven is love.'
- Sir Walter Scott

One of the songs I wrote with the incomparable Jody Lynn Westover. She recorded these vocals to a scratch guitar track on a cassette tape many years ago, and I've now added a bit of instrumentation to it. You are sorely missed, Jody Lynn. <3

Well, it's not you know.

Had the pleasure of writing this one a few years back with the incredibly talented John McCloy. I recently found an old cassette tape he gave me after our writing session of just his acoustic guitar and vocals. I've now added my two cents in here as well.

Bill (Squeaky) wrote the music, and I threw in the words. This recording originated as a Speedy, Squeaky and Holmes live to 4-track cassette. I've tried to clean it up a bit and added some parts. The line about DJT came about after watching a particularly grotesque episode of 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' (yes, the song is THAT old!). 

This started as a Speedy, Squeaky and Holmes 4-track, and we were fortunate enough to be joined by the illustrious horn stylings of Roger (can't remember his last name, he was known to us only as 'Raul') and my friend Bill Murphy, who dubbed themselves 'The Nordic Horns'. I wrote the song about my (ex)wife.