The Gloomy Optimist

The Blame Is On You

Nov 24 • 

Joshua Brian Krebs

If She Loves Me

A buddy of mine offered an idea, recording an album called “Caught Under the Streetlights” that would give a place for all my songs about being out of…

Nov 23 • 

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October 2025

Keeping Busy

The Fall is always a busy time for me.

Oct 15 • 

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September 2025

The House of the Rising Sun

I’ve always had a special place in my heart for this song.

Sep 25 • 

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August 2025

A City On Fire

The city on the hill that once burned so bright Is no longer a beacon of hope in the night And the flame that once burned in the city on a hill Now…

Aug 13 • 

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Waiting Rooms

I had a dream that I sat in the waiting room Of a doctor’s office under fluorescent lights With all sorts of sick people of every age Who coughed and…

Aug 12 • 

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Playing with Birthday Presents

I have always wanted to learn to play harmonica while also playing my guitar, so this birthday I got a new harmonica and a harmonica holder and now I’m…

Aug 11 • 

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Happy Birthday

This week I celebrated thirty nine years Thought the celebration was kept lowkey Besides a few texts and posts and cards It was just my wife, my kids…

Aug 8 • 

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July 2025

Blues

Sometimes I feel like Van Gogh Begging the priests'll take me so this madness won't break me and my ears won't start bleeding from the pain that keeps…

Jul 31 • 

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Reap In Joy

Today, as the thunder rolled between the mountains And the rain fell in heavy drops upon the rocks And trees that heard the sorrowed, shaking sobs Still…

Jul 23 • 

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Alexander wept...

I took my NCMHCE on Monday.

Jul 9 • 

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June 2025

Old Rugged Tractor

A friend of mine has been asking if I would post this audio somewhere other than Instagram because apparently it sounds better through the computer with…

Jun 29 • 

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