John Henry, Pt. 2
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My Love, Look Up
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42866978″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Into the light we walk An ocean of sky that calls Its voice like wind and a welcome hand To bear you away when you fall But I go there with you My love, my love But I go there with you My love, my love We point […]
Time-Lapse John Henry Painting
In a previous post, I waxed all poetic about the silk-screened posters for The Ghost of John Henry that LA-based artist Mike Estano created. I love when art inspires other art, and having been on the receiving end of so much of that inspiration, I consider it a tremendous compliment when the band is able […]
Your Walls Have Never Been More Beautiful
There are moments where life just makes me so tremendously happy and thankful. This is one of those. Last week, I met with LA-based illustrator Mike Estano, who my wife used to work with. He’s a tremendously talented dude who liked our album “The Ghost of John Henry” and wanted to talk about collaborating on […]
Coming Soon – Folk Art!
I like computers, they’re fine. Every piece of music I’ve recorded this millennium has been aided in some way by computers, although I usually try for as non-digital a sound as I can manage. Some people dinged us on the latest album for it not sounding “perfect,” but I wanted the sound of people making […]