We’d all love our progress to come in giant leaps. Learn a skill and master it in a single afternoon? Sign me up. But alas, it doesn’t work that way, at least not for me.

The good news is that…

This weeks New Song Sunday is something every different than the music I have written before. This song uses my new 12 string, a singing bowl, a rain stick and wind.  The song is called “The Hands Keep Moving.”    It…

For the past several months, I’ve been playing slide guitar in standard tuning. I knew about open tuning, and had seen my friend Howard Hall play that way, but I didn’t want to haul an extra guitar to gigs or…

I’m beginning to think the answer is no.

Feedback is an important part of my songwriting. Sometimes another set of ears catches something I've missed. Sometimes a suggestion opens up an entirely new direction. And sometimes, feedback simply confirms that…

This weeks New Song Sunday is a song I wrote last year during the holidays - No Mad Dogs in the Room.  I always liked the song but it was pointed out that it sounded a lot like another song…

After a successful gig last night, Dan and Anthony re-upped me to continue to play Thursday nights through November.  I won't be available Thanksgiving but will be playing the rest of the month.

I feel like I have found a…

One of the things I’ve been learning on my songwriting journey is the value of active listening.

In Mastering Melody Writing by Clay Mills and Bill O’Hanlon, active listening is promoted as a way to develop your skills as a…

Last week, on my guitar instructor’s advice, I started a practice routine. As I’ve written before, I work best with structure, so how is it going?

First, I’m saving a lot of energy each day because I already know what…

I work best with a routine. Lately, I realized I had four distinct areas to work on in my musical journey: guitar playing, vocal training, songwriting and recording, and preparing for gigs. On top of that, there’s marketing.

I was…