Album Notes

BigEyedMuse is a collection of songs that were originally meant for the web. The recordings were made quickly and often very soon after the song was written. In deciding to not re-record these, I wanted to keep the initial raw and searching energy. With that comes the raw mistakes and the hiss and the street noise.

It encompasses several years of recordings and even more years of songs (one of which is celebrating its 20th birthday with this release). That said, the collection is not a “best of” as such. It is more a representation of the older songs I am choosing to play live at the moment. One main criterion for inclusion was that each tune had to be live, just acoustic and voice. Any songs recorded with other instruments were excluded. Perhaps those lost tunes will be ripe for re-recording at some point. Perhaps live.

The collection is certainly weighted to the last of the Chicago years, 2005 and 2006.