Tag: Nields

Back at the Fruit Tree

Phillip Price of the Winterpills (and formally of the Maggies) once said to me that every time he got an idea for a song he wrote five different versions of…

posted April 3, 2012

Perfect

I am going to take a break from my assignment of writing on the writing/recording process of each of the 13 songs on The Full Catastrophe (our 16th CD, due…

posted March 29, 2012

I Choose This Era

Here is me playing the acoustic part. This song is actually the oldest song on the CD. I wrote it a couple of weeks before my daughter was born, and…

posted March 14, 2012

Writing The Full Catastrophe

Third in a series of posts about the songwriting on our new CD The Full Catastrophe, due out April 10. This photo is of Dave Chalfant figuring out a kick-ass…

posted March 14, 2012

A Belated, Bedraggled Valentine

It’s been a bad month for horndogs. We’ve had our share of really sad, scary, too-close-to home cases where someone’s sex drive caused a lot of hurt in our community….

posted February 20, 2012

Ten Year Tin

This is the first in a series of posts about the songs on our new CD The Full Catastrophe which is due out on April 1 2012. Today, Dave Chalfant…

posted February 14, 2012

Dreaming of the Dead

(My grandmother) Last night I had a dream about my grandfather, a man who died in 1981 at the age of 66 from esophageal cancer. When he died, I was…

posted January 19, 2012

Photo Shoot for The Full Catastrophe

Last week, Katryna and I had to do a photo shoot for our new CD, The Full Catastrophe, which against all odds is finally looking like it will be finished….

posted January 13, 2012

Why An Artist Needs to Write Fiction, Even When There Are No Marshmallows

Do you remember the marshmallow experiment of the 60s? Briefly, some researchers nabbed a bunch of 4-year-olds and put them in a room together. Each child was given a marshmallow…

posted December 21, 2011