The new CD, Ghosts Don’t Disappear , is almost done. We should be mixing and mastering by next week and after that it’s on to the manufacturing. It sounds good, the art looks good, the project feels good, and so what do I do now? 50 Websites is the goal. My first CD, Singer/Songfighter , got pretty close to zero write-ups and reviews online because I spent all my time working on my local community. With Ghosts , I want 50 sites to write-up or review the material but I need your help to make …

Let’s talk about a coincidence. Both Zack (my engineer) and I own accordions. Both Zack and I own broken accordions. I’d been hoping to record a bit of accordion on the song Someday We’ll All Be Ghosts but, alas! It is not to be. It’s too bad but the crux of the song did not hang on accordion.

 I still have violin, stand up bass, fretless bass, a touch of keyboard, and 2 guest vocalists. Everything is shaping up well. Mixing by the end of the week.

The thing with being an indie guy is that you always feel like you aren’t doing enough. Like, I just did my taxes and could have sworn I played more shows than I wrote in my ledger. I remember playing 5-8 times a month when in fact some months were only 2 or 3. What was I doing?   More recently Zack, my engineer has gotten something like the stomach flu. Let’s call it, the stomach flu. We were scheduled to meet on Monday but he had to cancel. So we switched it to tonight and he …

If you have AAA service, the basic benefit is that if your car battery needs a jump a guy will come out and jump your car for no out of pocket expense. Great deal. Two weeks ago my car didn’t start. I called AAA and a guy from 40West Auto Care came out. He was a nice guy, a 20 something guy, but was unable to jump my car. He messed with it a bit and suggested that the problem was either the alternator or the starter. He asked where I normally have my cars worked on, I told him, and he then …

Today I was very kindly visited in the studio by Ms. Krissy Downing, electric violin player for the DC band American Sinner. We spent an hour or so crafting a violin part for Elizabeth Feels Differently.

Right now the song still needs a bit of vocal work, perhaps a second voice in a few spots, but Krissy’s contribution feels substantial. Sometimes you listen to your own song again and again until you begin to doubt its worth even though it’s one of your more requested and complimented pieces. Krissy’s violin makes me want to listen to it again and again.