In 2011 I decided to start documenting all the songs I've written over the years. There are dozens of them, many I've written along with some really great artists. As I started documenting the lyrics I looked to see how many I had good recordings of. I decided there had to be enough good songs here that never got a proper release, and would be worth 99 cents each. So I set about remixing and remastering and ended up releasing these 15 songs as An Anthology of Sorts. The back stories and lyrics can be found in individual song blogs.



Lyrics, who's on the album, etc. is here.


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Meadow

By Dr Wippit • August 30, 2014
One day my friend Dan and I were walking around Oak Park, and I happened to have my acoustic with me. We had been up all night as was often the case on Sundays in the nineties, and we were still a little altered. We noticed just on the other side of Harlem Ave in Forest Park there was a ton of activity.
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It's On You

By Dr Wippit • October 16, 2012
It isn’t always easy to give it up
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Third

By Dr Wippit • October 10, 2012
This is also one of the first songs written for what would become The Kenilworth Project. For more on the beginning of The Kenilworth Project see Mama Baby. This was one of the first four songs that we recorded, and here again it was just Ben and I in the studio initially, and again Patrick went in later and put a much better bass line down.
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Intro

By Dr Wippit • October 9, 2012
I have a friend named Barry who is the king of writing acoustic guitar intros. We used to live across the street from each other, he’d bring his acoustic over, and it seemed like almost daily he had another intro written.
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Cry Like a Child

By Dr Wippit • October 6, 2012
Sometime around early ’07 I was working on a new song that started off as something like electronic music. I had started with the drum programming, and I worked the chord progression out while playing the wurlitzer through a wah-wah pedal, and I had something different than most of my other stuff.
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Mama Baby

By Dr Wippit • October 5, 2012
This is one of the first songs written for what would become The Kenilworth Project. The Kenilworth Project started with just Ben Gold on drums and me on guitar, we had a goal of starting a group that would be a little of everything, from ridiculously fast and heavy to slow and melodic.
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Be Here Now

By Dr Wippit • October 4, 2012
I wrote this song sometime after The Kenilworth Project was over, and it was the first time I sat down to write with an acoustic in a decade. As such the song quickly became personal and introspective. There are a few songs I’ve written where the words just seem to come out with no effort and this is one of those.
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Opener

By Dr Wippit • October 2, 2012
If there’s one song on the Anthology of Sorts that I think will make people ask, “Damn Dr, what did you put that one on there for?”, this is the first one. But it’s important to me, particularly the words. And I do think the music is good, but probably somebody else could do it better.
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Pocket of Hope

By Dr Wippit • September 27, 2012
I get stuck in never letting it go
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Crumbling Towers

By Dr Wippit • September 24, 2012
If it’s possible to wait too long to try I think I did