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I waded into the shoulder high corn, looked into the sun, and dropped to my knees. My grandparents are buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery on the western edge of Waterloo. When we laid my grandmother, Mildred Bolster, to rest beside her husband, William, in the summer of 1998, the view was a classic, unfettered Iowa…

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…

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…

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.…

“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,”…

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…

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…

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…