From the album, Up North (2023) Spotify | Apple Music About This Song Every summer, starting in third grade, you attend a sleepover camp. It’s about three and a half hours from your town. A church camp. You go with your church friends and some non-church friends who’ve been lured in based promises of waterskiing, […]
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Single (2015) Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube ABOUT: I was on my way to meet my friend Claire for our cowriting session one day when I drove past a billboard for Grey Goose vodka. The sign said, “Fly beyond.” I brought it up to Claire as a prompt to start us off. She liked
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From the EP Wonder (2019) Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube If you’re writing a song that you can’t seem to finish, it’s easy to feel bummed out, like all the work was worthless. In 2016, Dori Marcum and I were collaborating for her artist project. If I’m remembering correctly, we spent two days trying
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Safe Enough to Wander (2013) Spotify | Apple Music | Youtube “What if all the constellations were railway stations?” (First line of the song.) The obvious answer is that the stars would liquefy the railway cars due to their temperature being around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s also true that it would be difficult to fit
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Single (2021) Spotify | Apple Music | Youtube I’d had this short composition sitting around for a long time on my computer. I had no idea what it could be used for, and the chant I sort of made up kind of sounded like “heymumma-heymumma” over and over again. Here, this is it: One day
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From the album Passages (2017) Spotify | Apple Music | Youtube | CD | Vinyl I remember standing in my backyard after the phone call, trying to figure out what to say to my wife. We had two young kids, and suddenly, I felt extremely foolish for pursuing a career as a songwriter. How could
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