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BY NICK BINKLEY
12 Tracks
  • Started writing the song immediately after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016.  The first line of the first verse laments, “We got trumped…” and telegraphs what to expect in the rest of the tune.  It’s a bit tongue in cheek ala Tom Lehrer, the singer-songwriter and political satirist from the 1960s, but hits on[...]
  • The album’s title track, an Ode to our universal connectedness.   In high school, I had a wonderful biology teacher, Dr. Raymond Alf.  He was a self-taught paleontologist who would conduct weekend fossil hunts in the Barstow desert of Southern California, just a couple hours from Claremont where the school was.  He was a scientist, but[...]
  • A paean to the Obama victory in 2008 and his cathartic effect on America and Americans of all stripes and walks of life.  His ascension to the White House restored faith in ourselves and faith in American democracy, and for a time, to correct course and to reveal our better angels.
  • The lyrics are reputedly written by an anonymous teen suffering from terminal cancer.  The poem came across my computer screen without attribution.  I tried to track down the author but without success, hence the “Anonymous” designation for “Words By.” I then composed the music as a country-folk ballad.  The song is a “cri du coeur”[...]
  • My dear Sam came into my life shortly after the tragic loss of my late wife and mother of my two children.  Sam “covered my grief… and… brought beauty to this barren landscape.”  She is my “gentle friend, heaven sent.”
  • Wrote this song on Orcas Island.  Our family property goes back over 80 years and there are lots of “ghosts” – people (“flesh and blood, come and gone”), special places and trees and ponds and Harvey’s House.  Harvey’s House is named after Harvey Pinkerton, the property’s caretaker for 50 years.  He died at 99 in[...]
  • I originally wrote these two songs as country ballads.  One evening hanging out with Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals), he suggested rearranging the tunes to a reggae beat. He mentioned that he grew up listening to country music beamed into the Caribbean from super stations in Jacksonville, FL and drew inspiration for storytelling, influencing[...]
  • I originally wrote these two songs as country ballads.  One evening hanging out with Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals), he suggested rearranging the tunes to a reggae beat. He mentioned that he grew up listening to country music beamed into the Caribbean from super stations in Jacksonville, FL and drew inspiration for storytelling, influencing[...]
  • A country ballad inspired after awaking from a dream.  Out of sight does not mean out of mind.  Confirming our dreamlife is rich and contextual, full of surprise tailings, remembrances, and cold, cold water Selkies.
  • A love song cum nursery rhyme, a 1950’s-like Brill Building pop tune.  Fun and lighthearted with overtures of Jimmy Rodgers’ “Honeycomb” and the Everly Brothers’ “Bird Dog.” The album’s first music video and streamed single.
  • “Have you ever walked down Broadway in broad day night?” A psychedelic dreamscape inspired by Times Square at midnight.
  • Having first composed the tune in C, I was noodling on the guitar one day, experimenting with a different harmonic arrangement. Steve Dudas plays a guitar part reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix accompanying the vocal – just his electric guitar and my vocal.  I don’t think I have ever seen the same lyrics of a song[...]
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