BROOKLYN BRIDGE

see lyrics here

a love song for the harbor. something about Whitman, Sinatra, and a girl...

You'll miss her most when you roam
`cause you'll think of her and think of home

WE ARE THE CITY

An NYC anthem inspired by the Lower East Side in the 90s, before fancy handbags shops opened on Ave D. For Brad Will...

image by Seth Tobocman

THE HOLY LAND

Water St, Downtown NYC (the Fourth Ward) in the mid 1880s. 2 establishments - Kit Burns' Sportsmans Hall (i.e. speakeasy and rat fighting pit) and John Allen' s dancehouse (i.e. brothel). The song is a John dancing in the street with one of the gals. The Tigris does not flow through the Holy Land. The narrator is a know it all and like most of his kind, gets it wrong.

ONCE UPON A WHEN by Dan Littleton

Dan Littleton wrote this song while in a band called Three Shades of Dirty, the project that followed The Hated. He still makes sublime music with IDA.

STORYLINE

A song I recorded on my first CD Riffraff in 95. This take features Johnny's middle eastern fiddle stylings.

WATCH FOR ME

The producer instructed me to hit the boozer, smoke a ton of cigarettes despite being a non smoker, stay up as late as possible and then we'd do the vocal take first thing in the morning. this way it wouldn't be too pretty. i did what he said and even through a screaming argument with a friend into the mix. it's probably still too pretty.

BEAUTIFUL NIGHT

the romance of drinking, smoking, fighting, and love. all of it will kill ya kids. penetration point? wish id thought of that.

PHILADELPHIA GIRL

i was on an outlaw country kick and was writing songs less verbose. In general I am very verbose, except when I am speaking. Stonewall and Blue Nights are from the same period.

THROW ME TO THE DOGS

a desert song with a debt owed to Cactus Ed, Terry Tempest Williams, and Peg Millet just beacuse there is a ringtail cat in the song.

CHAINLINK FENCE

lucky bottle tops, baseball cards, and canollis should've been in this song too. The King of the New York Streets and the Bakewell grave made it in though. And I know Sally's is referenced but I had a tantrum there as a child and something else happened years later and I can't go back. Pepe's is better and the people are nicer.

KING NEPTUNE

Wha'happen?

COLVILLE BLUES

more desert music written in eastern Washington State.