Spring 2012
Happy spring everyone! Some great news to share as we head into the new season--Australian fashion designer Mela Purdie has chosen the title track from Zigzag to the Sea to promote her Winter/Spring 2012 collection. Watch here...
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"A Little Hokey Pokey" dances its way to Spain and goes VIRAL WITH 1.6 MILLION VIEWS! Thanks to San Miguel 0.0% and basketball pros Pau and Marc Gasol for celebrating this one.
Winter into Spring 2012
"A Little Hokey Pokey" GETS A LITTLE SPRING IN ITS STEP!
Naturalizer shoes has picked "A Little Hokey Pokey" to promote their Spring 2012 line of women's shoes. Love it!
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Winter 2012
Winter greetings everyone! With work now well under way on the new album, I am excited to share with you the first track, Winter Song.
This is a barebones and simple tune, with Ben Senterfit sitting in impromtu on guitar. This song all but wrote itself a few weeks back as I was lucky to catch a fiery Hudson Valley sunset just before winter's arrival.
In related news, I have been compiling your inspiring submissions to Collective Canvas, which will be launched soon. To all who have submitted material, thank you!
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Fall 2011
Fall finds me back in the studio to record some new material I've been writing over this past year. To slow the pace a bit, I have decided to release this next album one song at a time, which I hope will somehow mimic for listeners the days many of us remember when visiting the local record store was often the highlight of an afternoon. I fondly remember the experience of flipping through albums one row at a time, finding that one I'd patiently been waiting for and then taking it home and spending the rest of the day getting to know its every nuance--cover art, sleeve wording and credits, and of course, details of the melodies and lyrics.
Undeniably, these are different times that offer us exposure to much of the world's music at the click of a mouse. Like most, I must admit to loving this freedom. But, with all that has been gained, I wanted to capture in this project a regard for the ways of old. Perhaps it is somewhere between the old and new that we strike that valuable yet elusive balance?
So the new songs will come to you as solo surprises--no set release date, no cellophane wrap. Each song will tell its own story and hopefully stir your spirit in new ways. The site will be expanded to make room for each song that is released.
This new batch of songs will be served up as the musical equivolent of slow food, if you will. Digest, critique, experience, make up your own recipes and share. My hope is that this process will eventually become an interactive journey, as the site will grow to make room for an online collage showcasing your art, music, poems, photographs, ideas, inspirations, etc. that you wish to share in furthering the relationship these songs may have to your own creative endeavors. All submissions will eventually be posted on the site with your permission and can be sent here.