Speaking of Easter, something I enjoy doing is recording old gospel tunes, and what better night to do that than tonight. Here's He's Sweet I Know, by A. Jackson, hot off the press. For this song I stood in various…
Read moreMar 31 2024
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Mar 31 2024
Speaking of Easter, something I enjoy doing is recording old gospel tunes, and what better night to do that than tonight. Here's He's Sweet I Know, by A. Jackson, hot off the press. For this song I stood in various…
Read moreMar 31 2024
On this Easter Sunday, I'm giving a quick shout out to my long departed Great Aunt Bernice ("Bernie"). My parents used to drag me out to her and Uncle Johnnie's house on Easter. In classic early teen form I dreaded…
Read moreMar 15 2024
Happy to share the title, cover and official web page for next full album. It will be called Embers in Response, and will release sometime this next summer.
You can sign up to get a release announcement email on the…
Read moreMar 15 2024
It turns out, singing opera requires a lot more than someone believing in you. It requires work. Lots of it. It's work of the grinding type, more like going to the gym than jamming with friends. Opera is a culture…
Read moreMar 8 2024
Deleted the ol' BandCamp account last week. This is all part of a gradual roll-back of my digital presence after feeling stretched uncomfortably thin during the BDB era. BandCamp joins Twitter and ReverbNation in the virtual recycle bin. While my…
Read moreMar 1 2024
A few years ago I decided to really go for it with music, to explore the limits of what I could create and become. When you start a journey like that publicly you muster all the bravery available. You have…
Read moreFeb 23 2024
It's too much pressure to write a eulogy, so this isn't going to be that. But the occasion is the same: Jon Atkins, my wife's uncle, has passed away.
I met Jon for the first time when he was already…
Read moreFeb 9 2024
There have been some interesting articles about country music star Toby Keith since his recent, unfortunate passing at the young age of 62. Have you ready any? Thought I'd share just a quick post about him this Friday because he's…
Read moreFeb 2 2024
When musicians perform but don't have a ton of fans, it's hard for them to understand if their material is any good or not. It's weird. They get out there and do their thing, and they hope that people like…
Read moreJan 26 2024
After so much time spent with loud electric instruments, the next album will be all acoustic. Here's a picture of most of the instruments recorded so far. It's pretty classy except for the Pepto pink egg shaker.
While I technically…
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