I’ve been cleaning my room. Here are two odd tracks found dribbling into oblivion like pebbles down a long hill of sand displaced by an excavator.

(1) “Chicken Hush,” recorded live at Big Star Bar in Houston about ten years ago. When I found this recording I did not recognize the tune; it sounds different when you aren’t playing it. I’m disoriented by the way the pickup and amplification are presenting the different ranges on the guitar; and it’s changed quite a bit since then.

(2) “First Letter to Brian Brock.” After hearing the piano album “Correspondence” by Vladimir Martynov and George Pelecis, I wanted to do something similar on guitar. So I wrote a “letter” to a guitarist friend. He still hasn’t written back.