For about two months now, I have been looking for a venue. My initial idea was to have an experience of playing songs from my new album, "The Really Real" with a small band. Great players. Fern Perdomo on bass, who co-produced this album, and Nick Vincent on drums. Nick played on most album tracks . Add Linn Holmstedt who is just a kick-arse backing and vocalist in her own right. The Hotel Cafe, which is relocating (not sure when) offered a spot, and I love them. In my opinion, Hotel Cafe...

I am going to take a break from writing about music and musicians. This will be a rant about the current emotional boxes I feel many of us are living in. The idea seems we must self-care ourselves into a lull of angerlessness. Raging simply isn't tolerated. Besides which, it's not good for you. So calm down. Think about good sales, and what's on Netflix. Talk about a new trend in colors or clothes. Wish you had the money to just escape to some five star resort in Tuscany, or bathe in milk...

Do you think that singer-songwriters are particularly vulnerable human beings? Maybe on the introspective side? I do know plenty of artists who confess they live inside their own heads, and often prefer time alone, in solitude. I think it is a tricky balance. We do need to be out in the world, catching each other's shows, listening to current work, and not getting lost in waves of nostalgia. I admire Bob Dylan, for it seems he is always in motion, managing to have time to himself to continue...