Single · 2025

Clocking Out

Two quiet late-night songs about the small lights people leave on for each other.

Tracks

1. Porch Light Left OnI wrote this for everybody who ever waited up for someone to come home. It's a slow, grateful ballad, and I tried to sing it like a porch light sounds.southern r&b ballad, soul, late-night soul4:20
2. The Lighthouse Keeper's RadioA keeper, a kettle and a little radio, that's the whole story. We stripped it down to hush and let the organ hum underneath like the sea.jazz ballad, hammond ballad, after-hours jazz4:34

Liner notes

Nobody was more surprised than me that folks wanted to hear a second record from an old session man. These two came after the clock had already struck midnight, when the house is quiet and the only thing left to do is hope. I sang them close to the microphone, the way you'd talk to someone asleep down the hall. Keep a light on for somebody, and thank you for keeping one on for us.

Earl Dupree & The Late Shift