Sometimes all you have to do is pay attention, and a song opening drops into your lap. Awhile back I was on the air at KPIG Radio. A listener called in and said. “I have a traffic update for you”. […]
Behind the Video: “Ripple”
So what do you do when you’re sheltered-in-place and happy to have a boatload of musicians at the ready? You make a video, of course. Over at my KPIG Radio day job, it started out simple enough: “Hey, why don’t […]
Behind the Song: “Tuesday Nights at Eight (for Red Skelton)”
Aside from the obvious weirdness from being sheltered in place the last six…er, eight weeks (but who’s counting, right?), there have been some little slivers of a silver lining. I’ve been having a lot of fun doing a weekly livestream […]
Supporting Venues Who Support Our Music
Both as a solo musician, and with my New Best Friends, I’m super fortunate to regularly play local venues who bring us back again and again. If you’d like a bit of normalcy during this strange time we all find […]
Songs and Stories #191: Dayan Kai Returns with “To Be Free”
Browse and listen to the entire podcast archive at AnchorFM.com. Dayan Kai is one of this podcasts returning champions. He was a guest waaaaaay back in episodes #25 and #26 (with musical pal Steve Uccello), then dropped in with Keith […]
It Was 40 Years Ago Today: The Ramones’ “End of the Century”
The Ramones are – and will always be – my favorite band. They never broke big here on the west coast or in my peer group, but there was just something special about the quartet from Queens. They had a […]
Songs and Stories #190: The Carolyn Sills Combo’s “Return to El Paso”
Browse and listen to the entire podcast archive at AnchorFM.com. Oh, is THIS going to be a fun one. Carolyn Sills and Gerard Egan, of the The Carolyn Sills Combo, first visited this podcast in 2013 – see “Songs and […]
Behind the Song: “No More Tequila For Santa”
“No More Tequila For Santa” is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon and all the usual digital platforms. It started with a title. Christmas Night circa 2018, a friend of ours grabbed a decoration that looked like a present. I […]