“Harbor” from Another Life 2017“Benjamin Banneker” from Another Life 2017“Down In Paradise” from The Painter’s Bucket 2018“Here She Comes Again” from Painter 1994“Whatever You Do” from Communion 1995“I Forgot To Get Famous” from Willbilly or Won’t He? 2005
“Janesville” is a song I cowrote with Geoffrey Himes back in the early 1990s. I had read a book, Jackson Pollock: An America Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, and was moved to write some songs about places where Jackson Pollock lived. In Janesville, which is in Northern California, the song is sung from the perspective of Jackson Pollock’s father, Leroy, also known as Roy, who was a farmer. The song features Craig Eastman on fiddle and Billy Kemp on guitar and vocals. This version was recorded in 2021 and comes from a record called, The Craig Demos. The video includes a couple of pieces from the original score, a photo of a church in Janesville that I took in 2019, an image of a young Jackson Pollock with Roy, some images of Craig and I performing in California, an image of me and Geoffrey back in the early ’90s, some public domain images of farmers from the 1930s, some highway image that I took out west in 2019, some text from a letter Roy wrote to Jackson and an image of Roy that closes the video.
