Having sent my mixes into be mastered after exploding the 16 month stress bomb known as my first acoustic CD I thought my troubles were over. Alas every aspect of the home recording experience is determined to be what we call "a learning experience ( Read more... )

I deface the Reese or Frankenmuth Wikipedia page. Sometimes I get away with it for a few days. Anyway, I felt kind of proud of tonight's ( Read more... )

I did my annual visit to the American Indian national museum in NYC over Christmas, and while wandering noticed this ( Read more... )

Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care of Our Own
Bruce Springsteen - Death to My Hometown
Dan Bern - Haarlem
Ani DiFranco - J
Taylor Swift - The Lucky One
Tammy Wynette - She Didn't Color Daddy
Bob Marley - Rebel Music
Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting For A Train
Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly
Merle Haggard - Oil Tanker Train
Fiona Apple - Werewolf
Fiona ( Read more... )

One of the interesting things about teaching music lessons is that I'm constantly interacting with high schoolers. The thing I seem to always come back to with them is that school tries to ruin anything interesting ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Ani DiFranco and Bruce Springsteen's birthday, and I'm seeing Ani DiFranco. This seems like it could have cosmic significance for me.

Something so sad and so pleasant about growing older. I can't quite put a finger on it tonight. Like the positive is that I understand myself better, but at the same time you hope that it's not too little too late. "Youth is wasted on the young," or something as my friend Anthony quoted for me ( Read more... )

So I've been taking two kinds of lessons lately--singing and swimming. I've also been exercising a fair bit lately and am getting in decent shape for the first time in my life ( Read more... )

It continues to boggle my mind how great hiking in the winter is. There's nothing quite like standing on the ice over a river and looking at the hundreds of fine, icy teeth of a frozen waterfall--or watching tiny snowflakes land silently without a single person around. I look online and see what these places look like in summer, and it is ( Read more... )

Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Bluebird
Prince - Little Red Corvette
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - Sometimes It Snows in April
Ani DiFranco - Hearse (new album!)
Ani DiFranco - Mariachi
Paul Westerberg - Best Thing that Never Happened
Paul Westerberg - Lookin' Out Forever
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
Townes Van Zandt - Where I Lead