Molly Stranger

After recording this song, I remembered that when I was playing guitar in middle or high school, I used to dislike the sound of the top strings because they seemed too high or shrill. (Music-induced deafness has taken the edge off this a bit lately.) With this post as evidence, if this here song becomes the number one hit single in the world, when they do the "Behind the Scenes" secret expose, they will say that my autistic avoidance of the top half of the guitar's range is the source of my genius. I will laugh, because the true source of my genius is ***post edited to remove profanity***

Chris

I felt the need in this song to say the name of a person. However, one of the major pitfalls in folky-type music is when a song is obviously written in the voice of a man to a woman, or vice-versa. It can complicate the situation when someone else sings the song.

This can go wrong, as when Joan Baez sings, "If you were a carpenter, and I were a lady, would you marry me anyway?" Obviously he would, on economic grounds alone. Leave that song to the gents or sing it as written for an up-to-date gay-marriage message.

On the other hand, when Sophie Zelmani sings "Most of the Time," the effect is pure genius. As the song says, "Most of the time, I wouldn't change it if I could." But then she does change it, and she sings, "I can survive, I can endure. I don't even think about – him." When she breaks the rhyme, it feels like she's doing what Steve Earle once threatened to do, viz. standing on Dylan's coffee table in her cowboy boots. It is a good thing.

There is a third way, known as the "Kristofferson Gambit." So maybe it's in his honor that I thought of the androgynous-enough name, "Chris."

"Hupp" Will Go The Song

I think this might be my first ever use of a title track. I should have added in the drum kit to make it a more radio-friendly single.