Copter

I just spent a week on my cousin’s land in rural Northern California, staying in a little solar-powered yurt by the creek, with some books of poetry and a makeshift recording studio, writing and revising songs all day.

Here is one of the first fruits, a song-in-progress about a helicopter accident:

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Come hear me play a version of this tune, and some other new ones, at the Cafe Revolution in San Francisco this Saturday night.

Oh, and that white noise you hear in the background? It’s not tape hiss. It’s the rush of the creek.