Five songs, picked because they are the ones worth hearing, not because they are the newest.
I have written more than a hundred songs. This page is not the whole catalog, just five selected pieces that make sense under Gibidda right now: a little dangerous, a little bruised, a little funny, and mostly honest.
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Dirty guitar, handclaps, a vocalist enjoying himself way too much. The first verse introduces what sounds like a moody black cat sunning herself by the window. She isn’t. The song knows exactly when to let you in on it, and once it does, every earlier line reads differently. Loud, funny, and built for repeat listens just to catch what you missed the first time.
A whole song hung on three words repeated like a game. Acoustic and light on its feet through the verses, while she deflects the same question over and over. What breaks the pattern is the bridge, where the teasing stops being teasing. The last chorus gives you the answer she’s been sitting on the entire time, and by then you understand why it took her so long.
This one sounds like 1965 and reads like this morning’s headlines. Jangly twelve-string, tambourine, harmonies on the chorus, all of it wrapped around a Gen X reckoning: we grew up on clean rivers and front porches, and we’re handing our kids screens and a hill they can’t climb. The bridge is the gut punch. We had our marches. We thought it would hold.
Someone from decades ago knew an earlier draft of this man, and this is the letter he never needed to send. There’s no bitterness in it anywhere, which is what makes it unusual. Just warm guitar, a steady vocal, and the strange gratitude of realizing the person who broke your heart got the unfinished version, and somebody else got the real one.
The big one. A full-band folk-rock swell about the stretches of a life where the road swallows you and you get up without knowing why. It refuses every easy move a song like this usually makes. Nobody triumphs, nothing gets redeemed, and the outro settles on the barest possible claim a person can make and means it completely. If one song here is the thesis for everything else on this page, it’s this.