Cold weather is a killer. It sinks people deep into their bunkers, returning only when Punxsutawny Phil rears his furry head with an early forecast of spring. Over the years, I’ve wholeheartedly subscribed to the booking strategy that gigs are better left for the ensuing weeks after the Superbowl (this parallels our summer strategy of [...]

There are moments just before the beginning of a performance which give reason to pause. It’s similar to the feeling athletes get just before they take the field, where tranquility and nervous energy merge and suddenly exist within the same space. It’s also an avenue of absolute clarity, where everything appears eerily apparent. After loading [...]

Songwriting is a strange process. To paraphrase the late, great Donald Murray, 90% of all writing is thinking, and the other 10% is typing (I’m sure I have the percentages wrong, but you get the idea). This is sorta true with songwriting, except the process is probably a little less formalized. Random ideas, words, phrases, [...]

It’s interesting to think about songs, their place in history, and how they were interpreted when penned. If you go back through time, many folks have written songs and had them subsequently covered by another musician from another generation, many times years later. This isn’t a great example, but I for some reason, I always [...]

The first two weeks of January roll slowly, a marble across an even plain, and although there’s really nothing to keep us inside (snow is suddenly a dying commodity in these parts, and Christmas was Easter warm), folks are still hemmed into their living rooms by the foils of technology. There’s a lull in the [...]