Sometimes, a great song takes a great journey and just gets better. I need to tell half this first story, then tell you another one, and then I’ll come back to this: From 2007 to 2016, I was honored and […]
Behind the EP – “Lump of Coal”
“Simple” is often a relative term. When you look at the end product – in this case, the new six-song EP – you might think, “that’s a nice, simple little record”. It is, and like my last full-length CD, “Starlite […]
A Way Fun Saturday Afternoon at KSCO
Click to listen to Michael on KSCO’s “Raising Standards”(19:23) I really can’t count how many times I’ve been on KSCO – Well, I could, but it would take awhile. It would require math. And you don’t want me doing math. […]
June Newsletter: Shows, Podcasts, Corralitos
June already. How’d that happen? It’s not the 21st yet, but we might as well call it summer: Gigs are trickling in. I just came back from a very inspiring weekend of music (and time with friends) at the Strawberry […]
The Top Podcasts of 2011
One of the the things I dig most about this web site is the “Songs and Stories” podcast, which – for five years as of next month – has given me a chance to chat with LOTS of other songwriters […]
Radio interviews: Now on the Press page
Behind the scenes here on the web site, I’m slowly (very slowly) migrating this bloggy front page over to WordPress, which will make this main page much more spiffy. (Yes, I actually used the word “spiffy”. It’s been a long […]
“Songs and Stories” Podcast to be Rebroadcast KC Cafe Radio
I’m particularly excited about this one: KC Cafe Radio, an Internet station based in Kansas City, will start running current and past episodes of the “Songs and Stories” podcast beginning this Saturday, March 6th. Shows will air Saturdays at 9:00 […]
Free Holiday MP3s
Looking for a few not-so-overplayed Christmas tunes? Here are three live cuts of “Entertaining an Angel”, “The Grinch”, and “I Shall Be Released”. (Click image for more pics.) We played these at a recent stealthy little fundraiser. Feel free to […]