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The last Broadway show my mother, brother and I attended together was Tony Kushner’s “Angels In America” in 1994. Chris and I were living in Saratoga Springs at the time. My white Chevy Celebrity stalled out on I-87 near Suffern en route to the city. On the cab ride down, a fellow passenger (bourbon on…

What a strange, strange night. I’ve been meaning to record a few Christmas songs for ya’ll for a few weeks. But I haven’t really been home for a few weeks. And when I have been home, I was neither in the mood to play music, nor in the Christmas spirit. But the transit strike (which…

The last time I walked from Times Square to 80th & Columbus, my mother was lecturing me the entire way. The time was last fall. The occasion was my appearance in The New York Times. My mother was not pleased. Nor, for that matter, was my father. (Or, for the record, me.) With my mistakes…

I may have dreamt the whole thing. I’m not really sure. Oh wait, there’s photographic evidence. Ok, so it’s true. I was in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend. Yes, it was mostly-sunny and 80° the entire time. And yes, I left my laptop, Blackberry, and guitar at home, and no, I didn’t listen to my…

I’m going off the grid. I just finished watching “The Island” a second-rate, Michael Bay sci-fi flick. In the film, Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson discover that they’re clones created as insurance policies for their real-life doppelgangers. So they break free of their faux-Utopia and, you know, live happily ever after on a boat in…

A funny thing happened on the way to retirement. I’ve been thinking about retiring from music. Not completely. I expect I’ll continue recording and releasing albums (though I think I’ll rely more heavily on digital distribution), but I’m not sure how much more I want to perform and tour. Fact is, I’m a media executive.…