Preview Music by JK Talla
Songs and Audio Downloads
These are original songs written the way short stories are written. Each piece begins with a moment, a place, or a question that won’t let go.
Rooted in folk, spoken word, and lyrical storytelling, the music moves between memory and motion. Some songs are quiet. Some carry a little dust on their boots. All of them are built to be listened to closely.
Here you can listen, read lyrics, and download original tracks. Many of the songs are connected to stories, poems, or longer pieces of writing found elsewhere on the site.
This isn’t background music.
These are songs meant to be sat with.
If you’re looking for polish, keep walking. If you’re looking for something human, you’re in the right place.
SONG PREVIEWS
A goodbye unfolding in real time, measured in steps toward departure.
A reflective song rooted in memory and San Francisco in September.
A coastal, observational song shaped by watching rather than speaking.
A narrative song rooted in place and personal history.
A duet about relationships that hover just shy of certainty.
Neon Heart is a late-night city song about loneliness under bright lights.
A story song about a sea captain who has lost his wife and, with her, his sense of direction.
A reflective song about departure and inevitability, in the moment just before motion begins.
A weathered place where memory lingers, and every board seems to remember a life once lived.
An observational song shaped by movement, crowds, and the loneliness that exists inside a city of millions.
Yesterday Again is a quiet reflection on time folding in on itself. It moves through memory, regret.
Tracks, a song about lives running alongside one another. The footsteps and the passage of time.
Bridges is a spoken poem about the people we meet. Those we cross by briefly, deeply, or never again.
You and Me is a song about choosing one another. It finds strength in simplicity and shared ground.
The Port of Amsterdam is a song of arrivals and departures. It watches sailors, lovers, and ghosts.
Waves of Gold is a peaceful orchestral piece that unfolds slowly.
Tightrope is a song about living without a net. It captures the tension between risk and restraint.
He writes in the margins of other people’s lives, never signing his name.
Hope is a quiet song that refuses to give up. (Courtesy of Philip Clifford.)
Little Black Dress is a light-hearted rush against the clock.
A song about life and dealing with roads we'd like to be straight, but keep bending
A man drifts into a Tucson bar, thinking about his life, and about past mistakes.
A goodbye unfolding in real time, measured in steps toward departure.
She Came in Red is a song about love entering like a promise. Bright, unmistakable, impossible to ignore.
Every Time You Look at Me is a song about being truly seen.
Who didn’t fall in love with Julia Roberts in Notting Hill? I know I did.
They Said I Believe in Fantasy is a song about being misunderstood.
Old Friend is a song about a quiet visit made before time runs out.
A song about paths left unexplored. It lingers on choices avoided and chances quietly passed by.
There are times in life when a cause takes preference over family. A song that questions this view.
San Francisco Chauffeur is a warm, observational song about a man who loves his work.
A song about an imbalance in love. It follows the quiet damage done when passion isn’t returned.
My Boy, My Son is a quiet reckoning between a father and time.
Thunderstorm Kiss is a moment caught at the edge of breaking weather.
Timeless Child is a song about the part of us untouched by years.
A song that arrives too late to answer. A man hears the voice of the father he never knew.
Before My Jenny is a love song shaped by gratitude. It looks back on the life lived before love arrived.
Silence Writes the Page is a quiet meditation on creation.
She Walks Like Peace is a song about quiet presence. It moves through a world made gentler by her arrival.
Middle of the Day is a gentle pause set in a lovely place.
Glasgow Men is a song about grit, humor, and hard-earned loyalty.
A song that reminds us that everyone we befriend is no accident. They add or take away.
Time pauses on a wrist while memory keeps moving.
A quiet reckoning.
