“Dreams from a Stolen Car” was a song that I composed in my head while touring in December 2012 and recorded upon my return, thus making it a bit too late to include on the MEMOIRS OF A MANWHORE album: It first appeared on the “Anchors Aweigh” EP, although if I ever do a deluxe vinyl reissue of MANWHORE (which would require a double album once the three bonus tracks are included) “Stolen Car” would take its rightful place among that collection. “Stolen Car” would still be uni

I’d always loved this ABBA song from their final album, The Visitors. Like all ABBA songs, it was immensely tuneful and catchy and had a hint of longing and heartache in the subtext. But it also displayed them as a mature group of songwriters composing for a more sophisticated audience than during their “Ring Ring” or “Honey Honey” days. I also felt that the theme of accepting loss and moving on — transcending, adapting and coping — fit perfectly with my song cycle of origi

“Vapor Trails” is one of my earliest songs that I’ve kept in my repertoire. The first time I performed it was at The Cellar at Penn State back in 1990 or 1991 as part of a set that guitarist Mark Sylvester was performing (he let me get up for a number). I wrote it, I think, in the fall semester of my freshman year (1990), because I’m fairly certain I can recall sending taped recordings of it to some friends back home as early as my freshman year. The song, of course, is about

I first wrote “Come Undone” in late 2012 and recorded the demo in early 2013, so it was too late to include on the MEMOIRS album. But I was able to finish it in time to include it on an EP/single of “Anchors Aweigh,” along with a few other songs. At the time, it was one drum loop the entire way through the song, and the vocals were pretty bad (in my retroactively applied opinion) because my voice was still so decimated. Despite the song being a non-album track (and one of th