Sanderson

Austin Sketches

Head over to the Discography to hear Mark Sanderson – Austin Sketches, recorded during 2006-2008. Here is one of the tracks, a short piece called Farmers Market:

Alan, Song, Tom, transfer point, worship

Thorn in my Side

A new song by Tom and Alan Sanderson

Mark, Song, Tom

Readers here will be familiar with my brother Mark, who was my teenage songwriting partner and band-mate in Claudia Doesn’t Like It. I am excited to announce that Mark has joined this site and will be posting his music here. To celebrate we are sharing Chronocide in California, the first collaboration album by Mark and […]

Alan, Mark, Song, Tom

Introducing Sanderson.band, and The Guitar-Chord Closet

My recent project with Tom was a lot of fun, and when I posted the album here to this site it got me thinking. Tom hasn’t been online with his music since the old mp3.com went belly up in about 2003, but he has made dozens of great recordings over the years. Why not offer […]

Alan, Song

Pity Party – Tablature

Here are tablatures for my tracks on Pity Party: The Beach is Closed Going_Viral Chronocide Pity_Party_-_reprise And here they are in MuseScore format. Enjoy!

Alan, Song, Tom, transfer point

Pity Party

A new mini-album by Tom and Alan Sanderson I shared a couple of these songs last week in a post, and now the full album is complete. Head over to the main album page for detailed production notes and downloads.

Alan, Song

Sneak Preview: Going Viral, The Beach is Closed

I am currently working on a musical collaboration with my cousin Tom, but I have gotten some requests to share a couple of these tracks more widely while we still work on the others. The project is a collection of songs about the pandemic. “Going Viral” is the first recording to really showcase my new […]

Alan, Song, worship

Learn for Myself

Here is my latest recording, a new song called “Learn for Myself.” I decided to try something new, and make a music video. Download: audio (mp3), lyrics & chords (pdf), tablature (pdf)

Alan, SkullToast, Song

The Ballad of the California Gold Rush

One of my kids is studying US history in school this year, and decided to write and record a folk song about the California gold rush of 1849 for a school assignment. Of course I helped him with it. The actual assignment was to make something about the Westward Expansion, and it could have been […]

Alan, Song

Come Walk With Me

Last fall I met up with Michael Willis, developer of the Dragonfly Reverb plugins, to record a song he wrote. Michael had already programmed half of the song in midi tracks and recorded the clarinet intro, so I added the guitar and bass parts. A few weeks later we met again and finished these tracks […]