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A

All the change (notes by BAM)

Alabama Goddam!

Anywhere 

B
Back pocket blues
Bead
Begin again

Berries on the rowan (Mustard) (notes by BAM)
Bird

Bone Spurs Boogie
Breathing when I’m speaking 

C

Chances

Chop it down

Chickens
Clara (Lev) 
(notes by BAM) 
Comin' 'round for something (when you're coming 'round at all)

D
Dead Mall 
(notes by BAM)

Den (poem published in Headline Poetry and Press)

Different Kind of Gone

E 

F

For the records
Frail thing

G

Get Out of Here

Good day's work

Good drying day

Goode goode mann 

Good graces 

H

How are we doing on time?

I

I don't have a chance anymore
I got you all wrong 

If I really loved her (I’d leave her alone)

I just can't keep from crying (Blind Willie Johnson)

Instant cash and diamonds
I shouldn’t call you anymore 
(notes by BAM)

It’s gonna be a day

I wanna sing songs of love

J

Jonah’s ride (notes by BAM)

K

Killarny Glen

L

Laurel

Law of the rain
Lead me on

Leave the girl alone

Let’s go get the girls 

Let's make a king 

Let your sorrows have a few days off

Look a fool (Mustard)

Love’s a pretty thing (don’t put it past you)
Lowride (Music by Electro Morocco) 
Lucas and Ada’s California wedding song

M

Madame Ching (Music by Nanuchka)

Moment to lose  (Music by Roy Gurel)
Million years

My blackened name (Il mio nome infangato) (notes by BAM)

My last romance 

My one friend
My rights

N

Nature vs. NYC
Nature program

No real pleasure (notes by BAM)

No time to leave

No time at all
Not Yet

O

Old Bob on Election Night
Old chords 

One hundred pills per person
Only so many ways this can end

Organ donor (give your heart to Jesus)

Our lady of the highways
Oh my stars

P

Piano (Music by Roy Gurel)

Q

R

S

Sam Cooke

Same kind of fascist

Seabird (notes by BAM)
Seaplane
‘Scuse me for livin’

Shutdown Blues (notes by BAM)

Start this off
Story you already know

Strongman Blues

Stupid Followed Evil
Sweetly down (Music by Electro Morocco)

T 
Teach the Christians 

That ain't nothing

The Good (that one good friend can do)

The Cage You've Built (Is Your Own)

The One I'm Waiting On

The white man gets things done

Throw those thoughts away

Tickets

Tired bones

Town born child

Town in my back pocket
Trouble came

Try to be gentle

U

Union girl
Upside down (a spell for traversing the land of the dead) 
(notes by BAM)

U.S. Custody 

V

W
Wake up when the train stops

We Beat 'em Before (We'll Beat 'em Again)
We've been waiting for the first day of summer (since the first day of fall)
 

What is Murder?

Whistleblower Blues
Whole day through

Wrong for that

X

Y

Yesterday’s blues

You're the one that I'm waiting on 

Your Gun

12 bars of blues

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Photos: Tara Anders, Andrew Mecoli, Dawn Bruno, Franceso Conte, Joan Vorderbruggen

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