The cooler side
October 1, 2026
October is when the year finally gives in down here, which makes it a good month to talk about a song most people haven't found.
The Tide Log —
Notes from the Gulf
A short one most days — behind the songs, around Sarasota, and along for the ride.
Watching for the round gray backs
September 29, 2026
There's a whole category of Sarasota afternoon that consists of standing at a railing over some piece of water, doing nothing, waiting to see whether a manatee comes by.
Out of my hands
September 27, 2026
Something nobody warns you about: the day a song comes out, it stops being yours.
Hurricane Watch
September 25, 2026
We're deep into the stretch of the year where everybody down here checks the same map too many times a day, so this seems like the moment to talk about "Hurricane Watch."
The part that's actually the job
September 23, 2026
People ask where songs come from and I've written about that already. Nobody ever asks about the second part, which is where the work actually lives.
The sand that stays cool
September 21, 2026
Here's a thing about Siesta Key that sounds like a tourism brochure lie until you stand on it: the sand doesn't get hot.
Late Night Confessions is out
September 19, 2026
It's out. "Late Night Confessions" went up yesterday, everywhere you listen.
What to put on for game day
September 17, 2026
Football's back, which around here means somebody is hosting, and somebody has to figure out what's playing before kickoff and during the long stretches when nobody's really watching.
Next out of the drawer
September 15, 2026
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned there were seventeen finished songs sitting in a drawer, waiting their turn. A few of you wrote to ask which one was next, which I did not expect and enjoyed enormously.
The one that found people
September 13, 2026
Every songwriter I know has the same quiet experience eventually: the song that connects is not the one you'd have picked.
The town exhales
September 11, 2026
There's a week in September where you can feel Sarasota let its shoulders down.
Late Night Confessions
September 9, 2026
Some songs I build. This one I mostly transcribed.
Still taking the lessons
September 7, 2026
A few weeks ago I mentioned I'd started singing lessons, which felt like an odd thing to admit in public for somebody who already has songs out. Here's the follow-up nobody asked for.
The charts are yours
September 5, 2026
Something on this site that almost nobody has found: there are chord charts for nearly the whole catalog, and they're free.
The season nobody advertises
September 3, 2026
September in Florida is the month the brochures skip.
For everybody with two left feet
September 1, 2026
There are two new songs up, and they're both about the same thing: being the worst person on the floor and doing it anyway.
The unofficial end of summer
August 30, 2026
Labor Day weekend. Everywhere north of here, this is the end: last cookout, pool cover goes on, school clothes laid out. Summer gets a funeral and everybody brings potato salad.
Seventeen songs in a drawer
August 28, 2026
Confession: while the summer album was making its way into the world, I kept writing. There are seventeen finished songs sitting in a drawer right now, done and mixed and titled, waiting their turn.
The radio station that never sleeps
August 26, 2026
Somewhere right now — three in the morning, lunch rush, doesn't matter — there is a radio station playing beach country, and it has never once gone off the air since the day it lit up in early August.
The song almost nobody's found
August 24, 2026
Every week I look at the numbers, and every week the same little song raises its hand from the back of the room.
I started singing lessons
August 22, 2026
This month I did something I've been circling for a year: I found a voice teacher and paid for ten lessons before I could talk myself out of it.
I put a billboard on I-75
August 20, 2026
For one Sunday this month, if you drove past the outlet mall on I-75, my name was forty feet wide over the interstate.
Football weather
August 18, 2026
Down here "football weather" is a lie we tell together. The rest of the country gets crisp air and flannel. We get ninety degrees, a heat index that reads like a typo, and a stadium full of people pretending their sweet …
What comes next
August 16, 2026
The summer record is out and finished, and the honest answer to "what now" is that I've already started the next one.
The other half, plugged in
August 14, 2026
There's a second thing running alongside all this and it's time I explained it properly instead of letting people find it by accident.
Gone Coastal is a map
August 12, 2026
"Gone Coastal" names three real places in a row, and people who don't live here assume I invented them to sound local. They're all real, they're all within about ten minutes of each other, and the song is more or less a …
The songs people play twice
August 10, 2026
I spent an evening this week actually reading my own numbers instead of glancing at the top one, and it rearranged how I think about the catalogue.
A new way to watch the songs
August 8, 2026
There's a batch of new videos up and they look nothing like the old ones. I want to explain what they are and why I made them, because it's a real change.
You Can't Frame a Summer is out
August 7, 2026
It's out. **You Can't Frame a Summer**, ten songs, everywhere you listen as of this morning.
Six Thousand
August 6, 2026
This week the monthly listener count crossed six thousand.
Right on Time
August 5, 2026
"Rhode Island Timing" is about the way some people arrive exactly when they're supposed to, from exactly where you weren't looking.
The Golden Hour Rule
August 4, 2026
If you look at my album covers, my videos, this whole website — it's all sunset. Orange sky, gold water, that last warm hour. People have asked if I ever get tired of it.
The Album: You Can't Frame a Summer
August 3, 2026
Big one today: the album is real. It's called **You Can't Frame a Summer**, ten songs, and it lands everywhere **August 7** — this Friday.
The Sweet Tea Song
August 2, 2026
"Every Sweet Thing" is a list song, which is a dangerous thing to attempt — list songs go corny fast if the list isn't true.
Tourist Season: A Truce
August 1, 2026
Every local complains about season. The traffic on 41, the hour wait for a grouper sandwich, the parking at the beach access gone by nine a.m.
Under Sarasota Lights
July 31, 2026
Every town has an hour when it shows off. Sarasota's is right after nine.
Where the Songs Come From
July 30, 2026
People ask where the songs come from, and the honest answer is: mostly from paying attention.
New One: Calling In Sick
July 29, 2026
Just put a new lyric video up on the channel — "Calling In Sick."
The Lesson at Point of Rocks
July 28, 2026
At the south end of Siesta Key there's a spot called Point of Rocks, where the sand quits being famous and the shoreline turns to coral ledges and tide pools.
The Fireworks Song
July 27, 2026
"Boom Pop Sizzle" is the biggest song I've put out so far, and it's basically about holding somebody's hand while the sky explodes.
Drum Circle Sundays
July 26, 2026
If you've never been on Siesta Key beach an hour before sunset on a Sunday, here's what happens: people just start showing up with drums.
The Glovebox Full of Proof
July 25, 2026
"Receipts" started with an actual glovebox.
Notes from the Gulf
July 24, 2026
I figured it was time this website had a spot where I could just talk.
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