Archive for June 2007
These Romantic Dreams In My Head
It was only last night, but it already seems like a long time ago. My friends are the best. I’m lucky for them. We had a really good time at the “Besides” CD release. Primarily because it wasn’t so much about the CD release at all, but about a bunch of friends getting together to…
Read MoreThe Last Time – MP3
My hand to God’s, here’s how it happened. I woke up late on account of getting home late from last night’s “Besides” release with a bonus Sundown show afterwards. I jumped online to update the set list on my site, then checked out Sundown’s site to see if they’d updated anything (like, “We hung with…
Read MoreStars And Hearts And Broken Things (Part II)
What a shitty day. I was soaked straight through before I got to the office, then I had meetings straight through — including one that began at six o’clock. That’s the one at which I kinda’ lost my shit. Which isn’t the point of this story. After work, I walked by Rudy’s to pick up…
Read MoreBesides
I’m getting married in October. Which is thrilling. But, on top of working for The Man, producing a documentary with my brother, and training for my eighth NYC Marathon, it makes for a hectic year — one in which releasing a new CD is out of the question. So today I’m releasing two new CDs.…
Read MoreThis Place That I Call Home
“Where are you? L.A.? Chicago? Honduras?” “Um, no,” I say. “I’m walking west on 45th Street.” I’m on the phone with my buddy, Nadas front man Jason Walsmith. “I gotta’ warn you,” I say. “New York City’s finest are doing one of their anti-terror swarm things, so it might get loud.” “I gotta’ warn you,”…
Read MoreBecause Tomorrow Is Not Today
Midway through The Undisputed Heavyweights’ cacophonous, careening, and compelling performance Friday night, front man Casey Shea found himself sprawled across a table top. The wild-eyed singer was freshly fatigued from a six-week, cross-country tour with his other band, Sundown. Less than 72 hours after touching down in New York City, and with nary a moment…
Read MoreMake It All Alright – MP3
This one found me. I was finishing my coffee, just pacing around the living room with my guitar, when I started strumming this progression. I mumbled nonesense until “baby take a look at me” and “someone save me” emerged. The rest is here on tape (or, um, mp3). Those polyrhythms you hear in the bridge…
Read MoreSundown Brings Laurel Canyon To The Lower East Side
Seems kind of perfect that a band that calls itself Sundown would return triumphantly from its cross-country “Rockwood To The Roxy” tour just a few minutes after, well, sundown on the longest, sunniest day of the year, right? Sure, a thunderstorm raged outside just before the acoustic trio began its standing-room-only Rockwood Music Hall performance…
Read MoreStars And Hearts And Broken Things (Part I)
I was absolutely clueless after college. Other than recording “Always Almost There” with Steve Feldman (see below), and spending as much time as possible with my then-girlfriend, I didn’t know where to go or what to do. I temped for exactly two days that summer. The first job was cleaning up an out-of-wack filing system…
Read MoreRockin’ On The Horse-Sized Pills
Steve Feldman and I met in Syracuse, New York, right around the time when my band, Smokey Junglefrog, was nominated for an inaugural Syracuse Area Music Award. We lost. But Steve won Producer of the Year. Smokey and Steve recorded to albums together, “Au Gratin” and “She’s My Niece” (don’t look for ’em, they’re long…
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