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New record 
I Want to Memorize Everything


Listen NOw At ALl the PLaces
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About the record​

For years I've wanted to make a spare acoustic record. I've tried a number of times but because I am so enamored with the process of adding-more-stuff, I've always failed. Even back when I used to record everything with a cassette 4-track, I always had to bounce bounce bounce (that means add more tracks). My musical brain formed while listening intently to psychedelic, prog, new-wave, jangle rock, and singer-songwriter folk. It's very difficult to limit myself in the studio. But I managed to keep it all under 8 tracks with most songs having fewer. 

I Want to Memorize Everything is nine songs long. It lasts about a half hour, just like the old Simon and Garfunkel albums that I memorized decades ago. It's my most vulnerable album. Because the instrumentation is limited, there is no place for my voice or my lyrics to hide. They're right out there for you to pick apart.

I think of it as a late autumn album, but I don’t know exactly why. A lot of music sounds like late autumn to me. Maybe it’s because I’ve always lived in New England where October bursts into colors and then November dulls everything into a grey and brown smudge, with pointy tree branches against cloudy skies. And that’s when we move inwards. Everybody starts drinking tea and writing novels about pilgrims, and listening to music that sounds like cracking pond-ice and crockpots.

I don’t want to go into detail explaining what each song is about. The interpretations are yours. I’m just so happy that you’re listening. Thank you. 

-Henning, Autumn 2020


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First Single: Become a Better Person By Forgetting Who You Think You Are


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  • Home
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  • About
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  • Tour
  • Gentle Hen
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  • Discography
  • About Henning Goes To The Movies
  • Lyrics and Chords
    • Become a Better Person by Forgetting Who You Think You Are
    • Panic Makes Three - Lyrics and Chords
    • I Want to Memorize Everything - Lyrics and Chords
    • A Dream I Never Had - Lyrics and Chords
    • How Many Bad Things Can A Good Person Do - Lyrics and Chords
    • Young Lucy Lavalier - Lyrics and Chords
    • Gotta Get Out of Massachusetts - Lyrics and Chords
    • Slow Down - Lyrics and Chords
    • I Want to Remember - Lyrics and Chords
    • Joe Vs. the Volcano - Lyrics and Chords
    • The Straight Story - Lyrics and Chords
    • Poltergeist
    • The Year My Voice Broke
    • Panes, Trains, and Automobiles
    • Logan's Run
    • Super Bad
    • Amélie
    • Meatballs
    • Untied States
    • Unaffected
    • Service Industry Stars
    • Supposed to Be Close to Me
    • You'll Take This Too
    • I Will Always Root for You
    • Maybe I'm Not Meant to Do Anything Remarkable After All
    • Stop Taking My Friends
    • I Don't Know If I've Got What it Takes Anymore
    • But We Did
    • Looks Like I'm Tall
    • Held His Gaze
    • A Machine to Break Your Heart
    • Carnival
    • The Center of Times
    • 20,000 Dollars
    • Nightly Progression
    • Stereo Glow
    • It's Now
    • Emo Philips
    • Coming Home Alone on Christmas Eve
    • V-66
    • Willie (or Won't He)
  • Comics
  • Things of the Day
  • Contact