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Post-Apocalyptic Debris and Points Beyond
This collection is a song-cycle that alternates between less hopeful and more hopeful songs. I regret that the unfolding disaster of Trump II has made the new songs the less hopeful ones. I had to dig back a few years to find more hopeful ones to intersperse and interact with them. But that has been…
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The Love Collection
After Tales from the Grift, the Brothers wanted to shift out of topical songs. We decided to pull together some love songs we’ve recorded over the years. We haven’t written many. We always felt that with so many love songs out there already, some of them great, we should explore other directions. And indeed, we…
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Tales from the Grift: the First One Hundred Days
This collection of songs has been provoked by the opening months of the second Trump presidency, hence the subtitle “The First One Hundred Days.” They are not all about Trump and his collaborators. But they seem to generate out of the current atmosphere of crisis. As you may know, a “grift” is a scam, a…
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Caveats and Credos
Like the preceding collection, Binocular Visions (2024), this is a conceptual or thematic collection of songs. It alternates between social critiques and spiritual affirmations. A “Caveat” is a warning, like caveat emptor, “buyer beware.” “Credo” means “I believe,” and is typically doctrinal, like the Apostles’ Creed. But the Credos here are more participational than propositional…
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Binocular Visions
Binocular Visions offers double takes on melancholy, love, truth, and the end. That is, each pair of songs looks at the theme from two different angles. I didn’t plan it, but I noticed that I had done it with melancholy and then with love, so I decided to follow it through with truth and with…
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DougBurger Deluxe
Rare Songs Done Medium-Well Well, the songs keep coming, even now as I turn 75. The title for this collection is inspired by an early song, “Cheeseburger Deluxe” (1980), which is rerecorded and included here. And all the songs in this collection are rare, done medium-well. In the introductions that follow, I describe the songs…
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Death Warmed Over
The last album, The Last of the Brothers Doug(?) dealt with themes of mortality, and I thought it might be my last outing. But the Brothers weren’t through with me yet. So Death Warmed Over seemed like the logical title for a next album. There’s no particular thematic focus here. Seven of these eleven songs…
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The Memoir Collection: Playlist
Songs or any kind of writing may seem to be about something “out there,” but they are always about the writer’s experience or impressions of that thing. So in that sense they are always personal. Some of my songs over the years have been overtly autobiographical — even if couched more in mythic than literal…
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The Apocalyptic Collection: Playlist
Some of the songs in this collection could have just as easily gone into the Mystery Collection, and some those could have gone here. Apocalyptic is where mystery meets history. Perhaps because my calling to ministry came in the cataclysmic year of 1968, I have long had an interest in the apocalyptic texts of the…
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The Mystery Collection: Playlist
I might have called this the mystical collection, but mysticism has rarified connotations that don’t fit very well with my songs or my experience. But there’s plenty of mystery in my experience of God and the universe, and the songs in this collection range far and wide in that mystery — with irony always in…
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