Chapter Two · The featured record

The Thirteenth Song

Twelve songs that wouldn't leave, and a thirteenth that taught me 
how to be done.

The Thirteenth Song — where it stands

  1. ✓Writing·
  2. ✓Pre-production·
  3. ◐Recording·
  4. ○Mixing·
  5. ○Mastering·
  6. ○Release

The thirteen

  1. 01SOUTH OF AUSTIN
  2. 02I'm ok
  3. 03Salt in the wound of the world
  4. 04paper guns
  5. 05ashes on your tongue
  6. 06everything i love
  7. 07You asked me to
  8. 08I don't look down
  9. 09love song
  10. 10the road
  11. 11mountain i had to climb
  12. 12the song of the morrigan
  13. 13nothing.

From the sheets

My lyric pages. Tap a sheet to read the full page.

Handwritten lyric sheet for "You Asked Me To"
Handwritten lyric sheet for "The Road"
Handwritten lyric sheet for "Salt in the Wound of the World"

Studio Journal

Notes from the making

DAY 1 — THE ROAD

The first scratch track is in. It had to be The Road. After all these years, it's the answer to Drive On from 45 South. Just me and the Black Gibson L-00, chasing something I thought I'd lost and finding it waiting right where I left it.

More to come as the record finds its feet.

Fragments from these sessions

Lyric fragment
If the whole world turns away tonight And every window closes tight I'd still be reaching through the dark Trying to find where you are

— random lyrics that come to me

Dream Songs
I keep hearing songs in my dreams again. Full on melodies, lyrics, scores. I haven't been able to wake up yet to document them. But they are there again — begging to get out. Aching to become songs.

— journal · june

More fragments →