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Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation
  1. Just Wait Til They See You
  2. Words Are Hooks
  3. Standard Deviation
  4. Blue-Eyed Hole In Time
  5. Newport '65
  6. Agents Of Change
  7. Last Man Standing
  8. The Longest Way
  9. Bones Of Emotion
  10. We Need A Better Word
Owls
Owls
  1. Girl With Lantern Eyes
  2. Guns & The Crazy Ones
  3. Soon The Earth Shall Swallow
  4. Faith Will Always Rise
  5. Bad Year For Cane
  6. Looks Like God
  7. Cries Of Shadows
  8. All The More To Wonder
  9. Cry On The Flowers
  10. Paper Cranes
  11. Wings Of No Restraint
For Keeps
For Keeps
Duo album w/ Carrie Elkin
  1. Two White Clouds
  2. Echo In The Hills
  3. Kiss Me Now
  4. Company Of Friends
  5. Swing From A Note
  6. Took It Like A Man
  7. Sky Picked Blue
  8. Longing Moves The Ocean
  9. If I Need To Know
  10. Girl In The Woods
Man of Many Moons
Man Of Many Moons
  1. Houses Sing
  2. Little White Angels
  3. Man Of Many Moons
  4. Buckets Of Rain (by Bob Dylan)
  5. Ragtime Ragtime Blues
  6. Guilty By Association Blues
  7. Almost Round The World
  8. Two Guitars
  9. On Abundance
  10. I've Mostly Watched
  11. Know Thy Place
Instead the Forest Rose to Sing
Instead The Forest Rose To Sing
  1. Better Off Broke
  2. Swing Me Down
  3. Grampa Built Bridges
  4. Southland Street
  5. Two Timing Bank Robber's Lament
  6. Firestorm
  7. Serpentine Cycle of Money
  8. Oh Bally Ho
  9. Accidentally Daisies
  10. The Night's Beginning To Shine
Little Grey Sheep
Little Grey Sheep
  1. Leaves Are Burning
  2. Drawing Board
  3. Go Ugly Early
  4. Cliff Song
  5. Around the Waist
  6. Adios To Tejasito
  7. Tales of Sweet Odysseus
  8. Emigrant, MT
  9. California's On Fire
  10. Song for Judy & Bridget
  11. Company of Friends
  12. Trouble Comes Calling
Parables & Primes
Parables & Primes
  1. This Too Shall Pass
  2. Neil Young
  3. Dark-Eyed Prince
  4. Happy All the Time
  5. Riddles & Lies
  6. Esmee By The River
  7. Stained Glass
  8. Ghosts
  9. Beggars & Mules
  10. A Circus of Clowns
  11. Parables & Primes
Make Right the Time
Make Right The Time
  1. Make Right the Time (part i)
  2. Tick Tock
  3. Today
  4. Sunny Days
  5. Cleopatra
  6. Boils Down to Blood
  7. The Winds
  8. Anarchy for a Night Rag
  9. Closing Time
  10. Already Done
  11. Make Right the Time (part ii)
Enjoying the Fall
Enjoying The Fall
  1. God's Love of Man
  2. These Ain't Tynan's Blues
  3. Girlwhiskey
  4. Sometimes a Friend
  5. Tennee, Mama, and Desiree
  6. Blue Railroad Train
  7. Drunk at the Biltmore
  8. Oaxacan Vacation
  9. McCreary's Pipes
  10. Ten Penny Nails
  11. Columbine
  12. Not Unlike Water
  13. Frayed Unsightly Hided Eyes
Live at the Prism Coffeehouse
Live At The Prism Coffeehouse
  1. Cliff Song
  2. The Donut Song
  3. Three Chords and a Cloud of Dust
  4. Waiting on Sassafras
  5. Anarchy for a Night Rag
  6. Chapter Thirteen
  7. Lucky
  8. Last Night
  9. Sad Songs Walking
  10. Belief?
  11. McCreary's Pipes
  12. Heaven
  13. Canyon Walls