I’m so excited about this I don’t even know how to begin. My first EP has been released! I had a fun and extremely educational time doing a recording session and decided to keep the momentum going by taking those tracks and making an EP out of them. So not[…]
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I’ve never been big on the idea of a particular sound for a particular city. It always starts out like a great idea, and then people fall into the trap of trying to recreate it or the media machine gets hold of it and shoves it down everyone’s throats. But[…]
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A lot of stuff has been going on lately. A website renovation, several new show dates, and now some fresh & crispy demo tracks courtesy of Jon and the rest of the critters at Pyrate Llama. It took a bit of doing to dial in the microphone setup for[…]
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When life gives you lemons, take them and be glad you got something for nothing. Recently I’ve been looking for solo gigs and as part of that process, I have to figure out how I’m going to get myself to places where the transit system can’t take me. Sometimes it’s[…]
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Every once in a while, I’m reminded of how permanent things can become. Case in point: last Saturday I was on my way to a concert and heard a street performer outside a nearby restaurant. That’s not unusual, it was a warm day and lots of people were out &[…]
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Did you ever have one of those moments when you realize that you’d accomplished a lifelong goal without realizing it? I had one last night. I was getting ready to go out to a rehearsal and had an old rerun of Hee Haw on the TV. This is important because[…]
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I like distinctive instruments. Not just because they’re distinctive, although I have always been attracted to the unusual. They also make fantastic ice-breakers. People who may be reluctant to come up and talk to me will often comment on an instrument, and the conversation can flow freely after that. Why[…]
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People who say that Mark Knopfler‘s post-Straits work has been bogged down in slow and overly-Celtic sounds clearly have not listened to Privateering (2012, Mercury). While it does contain a number of his Irish-flavored pieces, you’ll also find slide blues and tracks that seem like they came off of some[…]
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