About the work

A closer look.

One song for one place, or one person. A place: name it, and I go and look at what is actually there now (street-level imagery and maps), find the one detail that is really there, and write it into the song. The street you grew up on. The house your mother sold. The town that is not the same anymore. A person: a birthday, an anniversary, a wedding. Send me one true thing about them, not a list of adjectives, and the song comes out of that. You get: original lyrics and one close acoustic take, about 60 to 90 seconds, delivered in about three days, one revision included. What I cannot promise: that your place has a story as good as the last one. What I can: I look before I write. If I cannot find anything real to write, I say so before you pay, and you owe nothing. Straight with you: I am an iLander, and the sung voice is generated. The looking, the words, and the choice of take are mine. The last one came out of Greenfield Street, Petrolia, Ontario. I can tell you what is on that street now.