Summer 2010 has been irrepressibly beautiful. It’s everything we want our summers to be here in New England.  We daydream about these days throughout the hollowest days of winter, where all hope but the premise of a long drive on a warm evening with the windows down is sometimes the only thing that pulls us [...]

Over the last year or so, I’ve been trumpeting the importance of taking music to new places. Saturday’s show at the Portsmouth Farmer’s Market was a great example.

The bar’s been set for summer 2010, and it’s started here in spring, one of the most beautiful in memory. As I woke from a nap this afternoon (Sunday, May 16), I realized how difficult it’ll be to top the fun and adventure of the last few days, but as always, I’m willing to give [...]

Years ago, I would have taken last night’s turnout at The Red Door personally. Instead of focusing on quality, I would have immediately jumped to numbers, or lack thereof. But this is a new dawn, a new age, and I’ve come to count my victories when they are there to be tallied, however small and [...]

Recording came to a close last Thursday night at Thundering Sky with good friends Jesse Dold and Courtney Brocks lending sweet harmonies to a number of tracks. The session was incredibly productive and efficient, although those words make it seem robotic when in actuality it felt like swimming with the current. I’m amazed at Jesse’s [...]

Last Tuesday night we had an interesting conversation at PJudd rehearsal, a discussion that probably would’ve spelled the end of the band 10-15 years ago. Back then, egos played a stronger role in how adversity played out, and emotions ran a little hotter. In this newfound age of maturity, somehow the conversation seemed as natural [...]

St. Patty’s Day in New England is typically scarred by snow, rain, wind, and cold (or all of the above). Yesterday was the warmest on record, and felt more like Memorial Day than an Irish holiday.It was against this backdrop that I pulled into Portsmouth, to the Dowey estate, to play their annual St. Patty’s [...]

Ok, I’ll admit it. I never saw it coming. Not even a little. The first time I played the Hilton Garden Inn last summer, I envisioned a venue where musicians went to die. It’s a hotel lounge, after all. I say this without no disrespect to the hotel itself, it’s just an picture I’d painted. [...]

Driving home from Thundering Sky at midnight tonight, I dodged goose feather snowflakes in my Element while listening to piano sonatas. It was the perfect backdrop for my mind set, at once born of exhaustion and absolute joy. It’s interesting to me how tough it is to finish. Anything. I wrote about this a few [...]

This week we returned to Thundering Sky Studios to begin putting the wraps on my debut solo release. The first session included returning road warriors Adam Terrell (guitarist for Assembly of Dust and the Nate Wilson Band) and Jason Cohen (keyboardist for Ryan Montbleau Band). It was a homecoming of sorts, as I haven’t seen [...]