Stories
This page features short audio clips and full-length podcasts of stories from tour, about select songs, audio landscapes, and stories about my life in general. If you have ever been to one of my shows, you are well aware that I like to tell stories from touring between my songs. I am providing these stories with the songs so that you could arrange them together with the songs in whatever order you wish — creating “your own Denison Witmer concert” so to speak.
I never felt magic crazy as this....
Around April 2006, the late English singer/songwriter Nick Drake started making random appearances in my daily life. Little did I know that these appearances were not at all random, but tied together by an overarching meaning that would be revealed to me in the end. What feels beyond coincidence also feels worth sharing. [Download mp3, 32.4MB]
Please check back soon for these upcoming podcasts:
Grandma Mary at the organ
Excerpts of an interview between my oldest brother Douglas and my Grandma Mary. A brief essay growing up under her wings, the recent sale of their house, and my song Grandma Mary.
Hate Mail
The story of my first hate mail experience. A few friends of mine and I played a April Fools joke on a internet based music website and it resulted in me receiving a slew of brash emails from one of my friend's super fans.
Boot shopping in Lund, Sweden
I once bought a pair of rubber rain boots in Lund, Sweden. Buying them and getting them home was nothing short of an embarrassing and costly adventure.
All The Days And Nights
A brief essay about life on the road, a story (that the title is taken from) by William Maxwell, and a song of mine that was influenced by the story.
Chestnut Hill — The song of the Unicorn
About 5 years ago, I did a tour with the Cleveland, Ohio band The Six Part Seven. During the tour, I was recording all of my shows on a mini-disc to compile for a live album. One night in Kansas City, MO, they played a audio joke on me. It involves a Unicorn. It involves a Polaroid photo…
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