Category: Jamuary 2023

This is the first song I actually wrote and recorded on the day, after taking a late start. I have a young child enrolled in school, and as the winter break progressed, we lapsed on bedtime, letting it slip later and later. As the 2nd was the last day of Winter Break, it was a struggle to enforce the usual school day bedtime. I realize this can be hard on kids, especially with the excitement of a return to school coming. This song is an appreciation of the attempt to get to sleep, even though young ones often feel compelled to move their bodies, fidget, and make up excuses to delay bedtime.

Recorded with a ukulele as accompaniment using my laptop’s mono microphone.

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This song’s about a local Seattle conservative radio personality who passed away right at the end of 2022. When people with disproportionate power use it to harm the less powerful we need to discuss that harm; death is not a shield from one’s misdeeds in life.

My buddy and bandmate Nathaniel suggested we do Jamuary together at our New Year’s Day party on January 1, and I didn’t get around to actually writing and recording anything until the January 2, after I recovered from my hangover. This is the first of two tunes written that day. Recorded live in mono on my laptop microphone with just a ukulele.

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