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FIRST SET- DEVIL IN MY POCKET  // SECOND SET- GODS & MONSTERS // THIRD SET- WEREWOLVES IN THEIR YOUTH                
   
beatrice  (j cogburn) mp3
beatrice is the name of dante's beloved, and also the muse of robert johnson's incredibly depressing ode to impotence, "phonograph blues." 
girl in hell (j cogburn)     mp3    
horrible recording. great song though.
gods and monsters
hard but true
homer (j cogburn) mp3
little man part II  (j cogburn) mp3
at our best performance-wise, this is white stripsey.  at our worst it's pretty horrifyingly bad.
little black goat (music- j cogburn; lyrics- j cogburn & e beck cogburn)   mp3    
montgomery (j cogburn) mp3
i used to play this song with james spence. it took me a few years to come up with this version, which chronicles one person's rise and fall.  the first verse was sort of based on college era derrick huff and the last on post-college pre-grad. school era me.  
new york
 

 

nicessus  (j cogburn)     mp3    
nicessus is the main character in one of laurell k. hamilton's excellent series of novels.
this is a great song is about death. 
some (j cogburn) mp3
we can all hope that the final verse is not true.
space  (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
addicts don't use drugs "recreationally," but just to feel kind of alright. 
the man upstairs
victoria's midnight cafe (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
this is based on an event i suffered at a horrible cafe of the same name in columbus, ohio.  they are still open. 
 when bill hit roy (j cogburn) lyrics mp3
one evening, my friend (and at least borderline genius) roy cook got thrown across the room by a very angry and irrational person in larry's bar in columbus, ohio.