We lost a bay area legend yesterday morning. I just posted this to the KPIG website. I’m reposting here, with a few personal anecdotes. I first met Laurie Roberts at a winery in the early 2000s. I walked up and […]

My week’s suddenly going pretty well. Like anyone who writes songs, I occasionally enter song contests because…well, you never know, right? And songs are painfully subjective, so I’ve always shrugged whenever nothing’s come out of them. Last year, however, “Starlite […]

Google. It’ll find you. But sometime’s that’s a good thing. KSQD radio’s Mathilde Rand (along with her producer) does a twice-monthly show called “Exploring Santa Cruz”. She decided to look at “Highway 17” in her broadcast, so she web-searched the […]

I almost didn’t record “See You On the Other Side”. I’m writing this as we’re just on the “other side” of a particularly (ahem) memorable year, happily on our way into 2021 (new year, new songs, new president, and a […]

I always say the real benefit of playing music is the friends I’ve made along the way. Case in point: I shared a show with Steve Kritzer at The Ugly Mug in Soquel many years ago. Fast forward a few […]

I was trying to figure out long we’ve had our fake, flocked Christmas tree. Then I remembered this blog, circa 2003. Here’s a repost. Pretty funny story. Original Post December 19th, 2003: Different things make the holiday spirit officially kick […]

I remember KPIG Radio’s Ralph Anybody telling the story of a call from a listener: “Can you play that song by that guy from Texas?” “Which guy?” “You know, the one who has three names”. Okay, that makes up half […]