Click here to listen to the 2005 interview with Mary Gauthier (time = 40:30) This one’s a rare “Songs and Stories” rerun, but it’s one of my favorite interviews. Five years ago, I had the opportunity to sit with Mary Gauthier […]
Birthdays and Video Scavenger Hunts
I had a birthday last weekend. A really cool birthday. With two of my very best pals (one of them being my wife) and another close friend in two. And without giving away too much personal data, let’s just say […]
Songs and Stories #145: Ernest Troost
Click here to listen to the interview with Ernest Troost (time = 42:51) He wrote the score for “Tremors” and won an Emmy composing the music for HBO’s “Lesson Before Dying”. He won the Kerrville New Folk award for songwriting. Last […]
Behind the Video: “She’s My Superpower”
This was a fun one, but it took awhile to wrangle it into a proper live video. “She’s My Superpower”, the opening track off my “Starlite…” record, is an upbeat love song, and it’s propelled along by Steve Kritzer’s mandolin. […]
Songs and Stories #140: Chuck Brodsky Flashback
Click here to listen to the interview with Chuck Brodsky (time = 24:43) We’re looking forward by looking backward in this episode as we re-run an interview with songwriter Chuck Brodsky. Originally from Philadelpia, he hitch-hiked to the west coast back in […]
Behind the Video: “Roselle”
This is another example of a simple little story that took a long time to properly represent on video. This is likely because I’m stubborn, I new exactly how I wanted to present “Roselle’s” 911 rescue tale, and I wouldn’t […]
Behind the Video: “Now It’s a Taqueria”
It took awhile, as worthwhile projects always do, but the video for my song “Now It’s a Taqueria” (from my CD “Starlite Drive-In Saturday Night”) is finished and just aching to go viral. At it’s most basic, the song is just […]
A Fisheye-Ish View of “Hang It Up”
A few months back, I had what will definitely one of my best gigs of the year: A solo slot at The Woodshed in Los Gatos. I split the evening with the Rayburn Brothers. It was a way fun “Santa […]