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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…

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…

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,”…