“In the Right” was the first song I wrote after a years-long — possibly decades-long — hiatus.
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Liner Notes: In the Right
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Liner Notes: Long Shadow
Photo by sErgio mOreira on Unsplash I’m happy with the new album, but there are four or five songs that I’m particularly pleased with. “Long Shadow” is one of them.
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Liner Notes: Strip
Top photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash When Harold and Doug approached me about releasing and recording old songs from the band, I was torn about the idea. “Strip” illustrates the main reason for that.
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RIP, Dave
Top photo by Caught In Joy on Unsplash I was sad to learn, just the other day, that my old band’s recording engineer, Dave Hackbarth, passed away about a year ago.
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Upon reading Ulysses
Top photo: Photograph of a first edition, 1st printing of the book Ulysses by James Joyce, published by Paris-Shakespeare, 1922. No. 302 of a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies, held by the State Library of New South Wales RB/0131. Uploaded to Wikipedia by the book’s owner, Geoffrey Barker. CC BY-SA 4.0 It took a couple months, but I finished Joyce’s Ulysses! (I’m generally not an exclamation-point-kind-of guy, but that sentence deserves it.)
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Liner Notes: Wall St. Wisdom
A.I. image by, I presume, Doug Lada. The Reign recorded “Wall St. Wisdom” at Neverland Studio in 1991, but its roots reach back another seven years or so.
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Better Late than Neverland: An Album
Photo by Oliver Thin. My old band, The Reign, is on the cusp of releasing our second album. It only took 35 years.
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A stack of gift books, round 2
Top photo by me. And now, I present the second round of books I bought from our local bookstore, The Book Seller, using the balance of a retirement gift from my colleagues. Unlike the first round, which I more or less impulsively bought based on what was available in the store, I special-ordered these.
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