ORIGINAL SONGS

Let Her Lie Low (2026)

🥇 Best Traditional Song, Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival Songwriting Contest 2026

“Let Her Lie Low” is a ballad of the second USS Philadelphia during the First Barbary War, detailing her maiden voyages, her capture by Barbary corsairs, and ultimately her fiery end in the port of Tripoli. In the attached Google Doc, you can find the lyrics as well as liner notes on the ship's history and how this song came to be. Hope you enjoy!

When I Die, I'll Be a Tree (2024)

“When I Die, I'll Be a Tree” has a little bit of everything, from existential dread and Buddhism to evolutionary biology and Rhode Island history. It's secular and sentimental, meant to remind us that even after death we are all part of a beautiful, never-ending cycle.