D Songs

“It’s a song I wrote about the town bar down there – you know the place. It’s the kind of place where tearin’ the label off a bottle of Budweiser is some kind of religious experience. No one knows why they do it – it’s so mysterious, that’s what makes it religious – but they […]

“I wrote this on the evening of the last measurable precipitation we had in the drought of ’88. I wrote it and then there was like 40 days of drought and then the very first time we ever played out as a band was on the Union Terrace here in Madison. It was an outdoor […]

“Don’t be afraid of your life – it’s probably more frightened of you than you are of it.” -Introduction from a live performance on 23 June 1988 “One of our oldest songs. Suzy Q is married, with a kid now. Anyone who can squeeze a song like this out of me is aces in my […]

“I always like to give away the punchline of this one before I sing it. This is a song about this girl on a Honda Spree listening to her Walkman and she falls in love with this guy in jogging shoes listening to his Walkman and they fall in love, get married and then they […]