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Adios, Terlingua

Maile planned the whole trip so I got to get way out of town and gratefully go along for our drive out west into the Texas desert for five days. We camped two nights in the divine Davis mountains,...

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Sunday Singalong at Barton Springs, Sept. 29, 2019

We had a wonderfully breezy balmy morning at Barton Springs this morning. A few new families found us so there were babies sleeping and kids running around to make it even sweeter. Sunday Singalong Set...

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New Song Demo: Singing To Myself

J MolinSinging To MyselfJ Molin Singing To MyselfJ MolinSinging To Myself{{heart_svg}}LikeLiked22 Almost every night of our 10-year-old daughter’s life Maile and I have taken turns singing to Anais at...

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Practicing “Isolation”

I’ve been working through the songs on one of my favorite albums, John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band. It seemed like a good time to post this one.   View this post on Instagram   Practing “Isolation” by...

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And It Stoned Me (4/20 version)

Happy 4/20 from Austin, Texas! I cut out of work a little early today to lay down this old Van Morrison favorite in honor of 4/20/2020. If you couldn’t tell, I’m keepin it weird, dressed as a pack of...

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Coward In Chief

I’ve been singing little protest songs to my self for the past few years. I idolize Dylan, Guthrie, Seeger, so this is only natural. But when I read the headline this week — The White House Goes Dark...

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LIVE AMBIENCE: I Am Made Of Noise

Gray and I set up on his front stoop the night before Holloween this year for the first of what I hope to be many ambient sunset sets. Here is one selection of swirling sounds to slow the senses.

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NEW SONG (DEMO): Anybody Else?

Gray invited me to join the song-a-week club with a small group of musicians. A title is proposed and everyone writes a song with that title. This week it was: Anybody Else? ...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): Collapse

An ode to a few recently extinct mammals and a plea to value those that are not yet gone. They are us. Listen to Collapse on YouTube. ...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): Begin Again

 https://jmolin.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Begin_Again-J_Molin.mp3 Begin Again (recorded on my phone) when,  at the end of a crazy day I’ve got the nightmare on replay god, what did I say? forgive...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): What Do I Know?

I wrote a song last week about some of the big, confusing, often exasperating mysteries of life, personal and global. Am feeling even more so after this week’s exposed vulnerabilities here in Austin...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): Dead of Night

Here’s an experimental ode to the deep of night, when the world stops and I can be alone in the luxurious late-night obscurity of the studio to howl into the dark and follow the echoes. This one gets a...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): Sugarcoat

This song comes from hearing stories from frontline workers and minimum wage workers, being astounded at the trials they face, their generosity, and their resilience.  One thing I’ll say it’s been a...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): Up In The Air

Here’s my space-cowboy diddy about traveling the vast plains within the small spaces we’ve been confined to and the ambiguous future we’re waiting for. ...

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LIVE AMBIENCE: Easter at Gray’s

Danny P joined Darrel, Gray and me (aka Icy Cinema) on Gray’s front porch for an ambient Easter evening. Gray set the recorder in the yard and captured all 2+ hrs. of ambiance, including background...

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LIVE at PaigeFest 2021: Begin Again

After 14 months of pandemic isolation, it was my great pleasure to play PaigeFest again (for the third time) last weekend. Thanks to Mike Baskin for making it better than ever and having me back, not...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): Bones

I supplied the title to the group for this week’s song – Bones – because I had just started teasing Maile singing this line: “My baby is boilin the bones, she’s got them in a pot what she found by the...

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NEW SONG (Demo): Just A Moment

Given this title, I reflected on the pause that I am learning can make such a big difference. This is the pause between feeling a strong emotion and acting on that feeling. Perhaps you’ve heard this...

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NEW SONG (DEMO): I’ll Show You

Here’s a jazzy little lovesong to Maile, my love. It struck me again recently how well she cares for Anais and me even when she’s busy, stressed and tired. She puts us first. She SHOWS us she loves us....

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Executive Meetings

At our weekly meetings, our boss likes to end with a question that gets us all sharing something about ourselves. Questions like: What was your first job? What’s your favorite TV theme song? What’s one...

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