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One of the things that makes songs translate into goosebumps, I think, is the sheer truth of them. I was going through a rough personal time of heartbreak, confusion, and weird affairs of the heart when I wrote Lonely Sound. I was on a lonely solo tour and driving ridiculously long hours with too much time to think about me and my messed up life. I will often get a song started on the guitar with...
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Saint Christopher carried the child with the weight of the world on his shoulders across the river and back home. I already had this song started,and had been using the name Saint Christopher in the chorus, becuase my good friend Cheryl who had passed away had his image in some of her personal writings and books. I looked up Saint Christopher and read that description and how he was also the...
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Rider Ghost is an older number from my big pile of songs I've written over the years. ( it is also on an older album of mine called Comes and Goes...and has a really different feel to it) I wrote the song during a dry spell from Gigs, music business, and even writing. I got pretty discouraged about the idea of making art into business, and decided to just give up my aspirations to get better...
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I wrote this tune with Tony Furtado in Tuscon Arizona awhile back. it was featured on a compilation album called Graciously, put out by Funzalo Records who I was working with at the time. That recording of it was done at Wavelab in Tuscon and while I always loved the song, I thought the tempo was too fast, I remember it being tough to get all those words out. So I was really happy to re-...
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This song is the title track of the new album...
It was written when I found out how sick my good friend Duane Jarvis was ... it turned out he was not much longer for this world.
He was a man who lived by his music and poetry, and kindness. He always had an encouraging word, and I think he touched so many artists and people in his life that his spirit remains strong.
when I first moved to...
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Beautiful and Wild was recorded in two quick weeks at Marco Giovino’s Dagotown Recorder’s. Marco pretty much lined up the group of players, (w/ a little input from myself) and gave each song a lot of Pre- production in his head. We’d get together, say hello, hit the record button, and usually get the takes we wanted by the second run through. Like I always say,...
