Updates

Three new songs are on their way, and they could hardly be more different.

The Story was written on the couch in a difficult period, and survived an expensive studio attempt that never did it justice. It finally sounds the way it was meant to.

The She took half an hour on a sunny Sunday morning, guitar in open G. A song for a good friend who was brilliant at arriving and even better at disappearing.

The Deep is the odd one out. Once a dance track called Dancedodado, now a bass heavy reggae tune about the old folk under the mountain. No, I did not see that coming either.

Coming in the next 6 to 8 weeks

Some songs are in a hurry. This one wasn't.

The Truth was first scribbled down about twenty years ago, and it has been taking the scenic route ever since: a living-room demo on whatever was at hand, a small pile of home-studio versions (each one "definitely the final one"), a session in an actual, painfully expensive studio, and now, at last, the version that gets to leave the house. It arrives July 30.

Twenty years is a long time to sit with a song, but the idea at its core never aged a day: living is easiest when you live from your own truth, not from the words, written or spoken, that others hand you.

The full lyrics and the story are already up on the page for The Truth, and on July 30 the original demo and the finished track appear there side by side.