What has moved you? What has changed you but still isn’t officially on your list of influences? As my powers of retrospect sharpen, as my openness to revelation is broadened, and slowly as details in life that seemed trivial at the time prove to be cornerstones of direction and influence when their effects become realized,…»

Memories from Yesteryears (part 1) So much goes into making us who we are! It is staggering, at times, to think about the sheer volume of experience that we filter, assimilate, and throw out or recycle in order to form our life story; our narrative of our time here on Earth. I was always drawn…»

Best Personal Musical Discoveries of 2013 We all find new things through a variety of outlets, processes, and experiences. I know, personally, I have a lot of really great accidental discoveries. I turn the radio on to a weird station at the right time, I walk into a record store at the exact right moment,…»

A teaspoon of theory and technique can give you a ton of expressive freedom! The term music theory is one that has great polarizing effects on musicians. The two camps are pretty easy to identify: “I’ve been working on a lot of harmonic minor arpeggios and sweep picking techniques” and “I don’t bother with music…»

Little recording and writing “tricks” for bringing your song to life – Part 1 Crashing waves of heartache Twenty shades of blue Cold gray clouds of daybreak The poetry of slowly losing you I have some serious Bakersfield twang going on in my headphones right now…so I was inspired to write a couple of sad…»