Jacob's Ladder

A mystery surrounds me
Like none I've ever known
And I don't know the meaning
As it spins 'round me like a cyclone
I have spent whole my life searching
Trying to figure out just why I'm here
But try as I may and try as I might
I don't think I've ever come near

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Sunny Window

"Sunny Window" is a long-deleted Colgems single from 1969, matrix number 66/1019.
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Goodbye Richmond

Originally titled "Bread of Dreams," this was my second album, and it all came about because of Dave Westner, engineer and multitasking musician extraordinaire at Woolly Mammoth Studios. At this stage I was extremely unsure of what I could do both musically and lyrically, but slowly (the recording stretched on between 2007 and 2008) I began to find my legs, mostly because Dave was so proficient at translating my vague ideas into musical realities. Once we'd finished a track, he'd say, "Go write another one." And I would. And bit by bit, this record came together. I like this album a lot, and I really love Dave's playing on it. He's an incredible "feel" musician, and most of what he did he laid down in the very first take.

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Bandcamp Update

During the past months I've been going over all the songs and albums that I've posted on Bandcamp, and I've remastered, re-tweeked and re-imagined virtually everything. So if you'd listened to a particular track or album in the past, you might want to give it another shot. Or perhaps there might be something else ...

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Encounter

O my love, where are they
Where are they going
The flash of a hand
Streak of movement
Rustle of pebbles
I ask not out of sorrow
But in wonder
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Closer

This photograph is my proof
There was that afternoon
When things were still good between us
And she embraced me
Oh yes she did
And we were so happy
It did happen
She did love me
Look see for yourself
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Da Bomb!

"Da Bomb!" features 12 instros to get you groovin' on a summer afternoon.

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More Blood Jungle

The man in the box ... speaks (sort of).

Blood Jungle

A clip from Thomas Nola's "Blood Jungle," which will soon be available on DVD. Yep, that's me, the man in the box. Been typecast ever since.

This Lonesome Road

The title track from This Lonesome Road. With thanks to Jessica Johnson.

Speak, Memory - Video

Another clip from "The Eliot Wilder Summer Good Time Replacement Show."

Endtroducing ...

My DJ Shadow book is hanging in there at No. 18 (out of 83 titles in the 33 1/3 series). Order one now and read it while you listen to Josh's awesome new album, "The Less You Know, the Better."

"Wicked Beast" Video

A video of one my songs, featuring the Eliot Wilder Dancers, which aired on "The Eliot Wilder Good Time Summer Replacement Show" back in 1967.

Trailer for "Blood Jungle"

The new film from Thomas Nola. I play a priest in an iron lung. Of course.

Alphabet City

"Alphabet City" was my third album, and the last one to be recorded, for the most part, with Dave Westner at Woolly Mammoth Sound in Boston. At the time, I was dealing with my mom's death from Alzheimer's, and most of the songs are about memory and loss. Here are 13 songs about warm rains, ghost towns and the bitter hereafter.

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