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(click the link / view of Ghent to listen)

My Big Breakfinally a day that was both free and good

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(click the link / nighttime driveway to listen)

My Big Breakan ochre handprint

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(click the link / downed willow to listen)

My Big Breakblown on my embers

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(click the link / indoor outdoor disco ball to listen)

My Big Breakbrain okay category

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(click the overpass leaves / link to listen)

My Big Breakvery "good job" motivated

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(click the link / moon pic to listen)

My Big Breakplay as you wish, do as you will

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(click the link / Earth towel to listen)

My Big Breaksifting lucre from the loam

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instead of a new studio track this week, please enjoy this video of my big band playing one riff for 42 straight minutes

my buddy John Thayer and I are going to be doing a Northeast gentle music weekender pretty soon, including a set at a sauna in Portland, Maine where we will be soundtracking the schvitz, here’s the tour flyer:

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(click the link / last of the teddy bear sunflowers to listen)

My Big Breakstrong as new rope

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(click the link / becoming sunflower to listen)

My Big BreakI became a baby again and it's the best thing that's ever happened to me

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(click the link / opening credits to listen)

My Big Breakoutlines of our loved ones in the dark

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(click the link / bubble fish to listen)

My Big Breakthe Fool, having leapt

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(click the link / backstage blackberry bush to listen)

My Big Breakgranted myself a music that was neither coming nor going

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(click the link / falls to listen)

My Big Breakthank you nice lady with a gun

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(click the link / table of bad behavior to listen)

My Big Breakthe maldon salt of peril

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(click the YouTube link to listen)

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trying something new today: for the first time I’m turning over the content of this newsletter to its readers, thus Your Big Break.

adding interviews to the formatting this year has been an excellent move for me - I’ve really enjoyed having those conversations and publishing them here has really increased the amount of other people’s voices and perspectives. and this exercise feels like more of that opening up the stage - it’s the my big break open mic and we got some good stuff on deck this week

starting off, a lovely photo from a recent trip to New Orleans sent in by Jeremy Shatan - he runs the excellent blog An Earful and can be found on Instagram right here

good morning ~

(click the link / movie theater dusk to listen)

My Big Breakdon't ever think my lonely ones that you cannot be your own sweetie

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(click the link / farm to listen)

My Big Breakat the mercy of other people’s generosity

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(click the link / sunflower billboard to listen)

My Big BreakThe sacred and the profane, the gnostic and the dumbass