This radio segment, originally aired on KUT Austin, follows me as I teach a songwriting class at Austin High School.

Profile of me and my old studio on KUT.

Wherein I describe the mall hellscape of Bay Street in Emeryville, CA, and watching Frozen 2 there, situated cozily atop a Native American burial ground.

Wherein I describe meeting these purveyors of modern schlock dumpster rock, and perform a karaoke version of "Under the Bridge."

Oops. Here is "Man's Heart Complaint" Goodbye Vibrations style.

Wherein I discuss writing the song, recopying Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1st edition!), and share an unreleased version.

In which I describe writing the song and the story "The Fading Ear" which preceded the tune.

In which I describe writing the song while working at the zilker train station.... and the various iterations of the tune.

In which I describe the disconnect between effort and result in my own little personal hell of songwriting.

In which I describe the arrival of the song "We'll Meet Again Someday, or We Won't" in a dream and its incarnations up to the present moment.