“Anthem” had a long gestation period. The chorus melody came to me in May of 2015 while changing the sheets on my bed (inspiration strikes…
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After the release of Postcards From the Whirlwind in 2022, I spent the next couple of years working on the re-releases of New Heart and…
When I completed it, remember thinking that There and Back Again was my first consistently good album. It was my fifth, so one would hope…
I guess you could call Nth Floor Elevator my first double album. It wouldn’t fit on a 60–minute cassette, so I used 90-minute ones for…
My third album was recorded while I was playing regularly as a member of Culture Shock. My attempts to present my songs to the band…
Memory and records are scant, but I must have started writing the songs for Interim not long after Anti-Gravity was finished in 1991. I was…
It may seem a bit strange to do a Story Behind the Album for an album that very few people ever heard and which I…
I began writing “Broken People” in the spring of 2015, not long after the death of my partner. I was watching Casablanca, of all things,…
I conceived of the idea of this song while listening to Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five,” of course. I like to challenge myself, so I was…