Field notes · No. 01
the pines were lonelythe pines were lonesome
The Lonesome Pines is a songwriter’s notebook you can hire. Custom songs, session work, records and merch — written, played and packed by hand in Boulder, Colorado.
the long way home —
past the quarry, radio off
Commission a song
Three sentences is plenty — I’ll take care of the rhyming.
Tell me who it’s for and what happened. You get a verse, a chorus, and the one line you’ll want to hear again on the drive home.
first verse comes back in a week or so — you say yes, or we try it again.
Session work
Hired hands for your record, your demo, or the thing you’re recording on a laptop at the kitchen table. I show up on time, I play for the song, and I send you the files.
Acoustic, electric, banjo, mandolin. Rhythm parts, leads, and the odd tuning you heard in your head. Tracked at my place or yours.
Stacks, oohs, and a third above the melody. Arranged to sit under your lead vocal instead of wrestling it for the room.
You’ve got a verse and a feeling. I’ll build the rest so you can hear where it wants to go before you commit to it.
On the road
When shows get confirmed they land on this page, and the list hears about them a day before the posters go up. Same list, same place: new pressings and merch drops announce there first.
if you want the good seat, get on the list.
The merch table
The table at the back of the room, minus the room. Records, shirts, and the small things that end up on a guitar case.
In the crate — records · shirts · totes · stickers
The songs, pressed and sleeved, in a milk crate by the door.
For the people who’d rather wear it than stream it.
Guitar cases, laptop lids, the back window of the van.
Local? I’ll hand it to you at a show. Anywhere else, the list gets word first when something new is pressed.
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Commissions, session work, records and merch — all of it from a notebook in Boulder, Colorado.