New Single: "Chasing Stars"

My new song "Chasing Stars" comes out this Monday, August 31.

This song has been special to me, and I perform it often (like at Folk Life 2026!)

I finally got to sit down with Jeff Fielder and get some help producing this one. I didn’t want to produce this one on my own as I do for many of my songs. I wanted an outside perspective.

I wrote the song while taking a songwriting course with a simple prompt:

“Write a melody” that happens before the song. I then decided to write the song about writing the melody. In other words, I sat down and wrote about the thing I actually do most days, which is look for a melody I haven't found yet.

Somewhere in there it turned into a song about the challenge of finding a quiet moment. About chasing a muse, or a star, or whatever you want to call the thing that keeps pulling at you even when there are heartbeats behind the door and little feet running across the floor and about a hundred more practical things to do than sit with my piano or a guitar.

I don't know what I don't know. I keep chasing it anyway.

Chasing Stars by Dave Hill Jr.

I'm looking for a melody in my mind

Chasing all the notes I left behind 

I don't know what I don't know 

But I sure hope I’ll find

A little music to waste some time

I'm looking for a melody in my heart

If I lose these notes again I’ll fall apart
I don't know what I don't know 

but I’d sure like to feel

a little music to make it all real 

I hear heartbeats beating down the door

I hear little feet scurrying across the floor

I don't want to put away my guitar

I just want some time to chase my little star 

To chase another star

To write another  part 

To open up my heart

To fix what fell apart

I'm looking for a melody in my soul

I spent too much time chasing Rock and Roll

I don't know what I don't know, but I know for today

A little Star will help me find my way

To chase another day

To find the notes to play

To play them my own way

Singing words I can’t say

Singing words I can’t say

Singing words I can’t say

Credits: Jeff Fielder produced and mixed the track, and played guitar, bass, percussion, and mellotron. I sang and played drums and piano. Ed Brooks mastered it at Resonant Mastering.

"Chasing Stars" is a single for now, but it's also the title track for a full album I'm putting together soon. Most of the songs on it are already out, one at a time. This one's going to be the thread that ties the whole thing together.

You'll be able to stream it everywhere Monday: Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, YouTube, all the usual places. I'll drop direct links here as soon as they're live.

If you've ever lost track of the thing you were chasing and found it again anyway, this one's for you. Have a listen and let me know what you hear in it.