Little Brother

Details About A Song That You May Or May Not Need To Know

  There is no way around it. I am still overwhelmed and somewhat exhausted from the Mardi Gras slash Folk Alliance road trips plus the bronchial bug I picked up. I have gone from happy tired to manic tired and back to happy tired again. I am a very lucky troubadour, and I have more stories stacked upon stories that I am attempting to chronicle in my morning pages each day, although I did take a bit of time off this last week to just walk and read and watch films.

  I have an album coming out in May, one that I worked very hard to record and get ready for distribution, and I have spent the last week talking to reporters and bloggers and podcasters about songs and life. There are some other details to these last few weeks that are a little more private but let’s just say life is good and I have my hands full.

  I have to figure out a way to reel this workaholism in a bit and enjoy the time off with my daughter. We are going to Las Vegas next week to attend the Beatles/Cirque “Love” show, but in the meantime new songs are arriving and old ones need to be distributed one at a time.

  This week I’m going to take it down a notch and give you a song that is very dark, yet also something I am very proud of. The song is called “Little Brother,” which is the fifth track of my as of yet unreleased album “Find Your Way” arriving on Black Mesa Records this May. For you vinyl cats, this will be the last song on Side One.

  “Little Brother” is an odd one for sure. Many of the songs on this album are autobiographical. Many are completely made up stories that arrived after a certain turn of phrase or eavesdropped story. This tune isn’t autobiographical whatsoever. I have no little brothers. I am, in fact, the little brother to my older four brothers and two sisters, but they are not in this song either.