Audio CDs

Sammie sent us a link to this:

I’ve decided to make lo-fi recordings of old songs I wrote in my 20s and early 30s. Many of these songs are between 15 and 20 years old and have not been preformed since they were written. The first one, “Photographing the Deceased Child,” is one of my oldest. I figure I wrote it some time in my late teens, influenced by a book I had looked at in a book store that showed a number of funeral photographs of dead children, where they were posed as though they were sleeping, often with their parents around them. The song was written to sound like an old American religious hymn, and it strikes me as an unusually morbid and mournful composition.
“PHOTOGRAPHING THE DECEASED CHILD” LYRICS:
Many children died from the flu
O many died and were buried then
With parents grieving
Parents who
Dressed their loss
In coast and shoe
And paid to have them on film again
And […]

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