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  • Playing for crickets…

    Playing for crickets…

    And wouldn’t have it any other way. How is it that 2021 feels like last year?..Not almost 4 years ago!? I confess I’ve been so busy launching my podcast and working with gigging bands in these “post-Covid years” that I really have put my songwriting on the back burner, time-wise. But a large piece of…

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  • Borrowed Violin

    Borrowed Violin

    When I was 14, as an incoming freshman at Riley High School, I started to use a school viola. It was old (to me.) The varnish was a dull brown. It was big, though, a 17 inch-er. It had a dated alligator skin case, but it had a sound that was both crisp and rich.…

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  • How Come? – ASAAF S3 Ep. 5

    How Come? – ASAAF S3 Ep. 5

    Imagine receiving a mysterious package one day on your doorstep. It contains photos of events from your childhood, but from a different point of view other than the one you remember. A picture of you blowing out the birthday candles, your face in profile, and you see the print of walpaper – how had you…

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  • Baby, One More Shot

    Baby, One More Shot

    Bonus content and commentary to my Podcast episode with Troy Yeager. If you stream the song, you’ll see the art work features a young man in a leather jacket whispering into the ear of a young woman. The story behind the cover: the name of the EP was “Dive Bar Girl,” also the name of…

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  • God Only Knows -AS&AF S3 Ep. 3

    God Only Knows -AS&AF S3 Ep. 3

    Here is episode 3 guest Mike and I singing “If I stand” by Rich Mullins. This performance was filmed in 2019. Mike started playing drums with me and Daniel for M.Cotu in 1997. But this performance was the first time we sang together. Like so many of our peers who grew up in the 80s…

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  • Falling Star – AS&AF S3 Ep. 2

    Falling Star – AS&AF S3 Ep. 2

    Accompanying each episode is a “bonus features” blog entry of fun randomnimity (whatever that is.) Click here for Mike’s Episode. A little more about the Friend… I call him Mike, but a lot of people call him Michael. And like the archangel, Mike’s postivity while drumming has defended my songs time and again from the…

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