I’ve got a gig tonight at Savona’s, a great Italian restaurant in the Rondout of Kingston. We’re just performing for two hours in the bar, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, but I’m nervous. I guess I always get a little nervous on gig day. But for some reason, I’m a little more nervous than [...]
I have a ton of work to do today. I should be writing a proposal for a client. Actually, I need to write 3 different proposals today. But I can’t get started. I can’t dig in.
Something happened last night. Something that shifted me into a new place and allowed me to relocate a part of [...]
Be careful what you ask for. Even in the secret whispers of your heart. You just may get it.
Last night, a songwriter/musician whom I admire asked me a question that stopped my heart. He asked me if he wrote a song for me to sing, would I accept his instruction when it came time to [...]
My friend Jeff from Sebastopol gave me the bad news last night.
Upper Fourth is closed.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Upper Fourth is, or rather, was a beautiful, classy bar in Santa Rosa that offered adults the perfect place to meet, have a drink, talk quietly, laugh loudly and listen [...]
Everybody’s just a stranger, but
that’s the danger of going my own way.
It’s the price I have to pay.
— John Mayer, from the song, Georgia
This afternoon, I’ll be singing at Don’t Tell Mama in New York City.
It’s my sliver of a New York City debut.
My friend Jason Britton from California is premiering his “Listen to Your [...]
I have a friend who’s a songwriter. A damned good songwriter.
And sometimes, not always, when he’s working on a song, he catches fire.
The creative spark, lit by a riff, a snippet of melody, a chord progression starts burning, and he becomes consumed in a creative blaze. The song, as it emerges, overtakes him. He can’t [...]
There were moments last night when my singing truly sucked.
I remember each of those moments vividly. The last note of “It’s Only Love.” The high phrase near the end of “I’ve Just Seen a Face.” The Ab in “Don’t Blame Me.”
AND there were moments last night when I never sang better. Actually, there were whole [...]
There are days, like today,
when all I need or want is to be alone
listening to John Mayer sing “Dreaming With a Broken Heart.”
There are days, like today,
when I feel hung by the weight of betrayal and disappointment
and yet I don’t care.
Because soon, at 5:00 pm today I’ll be standing in front of a room
of strangers, [...]
“So, how’s the Happiness Project going?” she asked.
“Uh, oh, yeah… the Happiness Project,” I whispered.
“Yeah, you know. The one where you decided to choose to be happy for a whole month? Because of International Happiness Day? You wrote about it in..”
“Yeah, yeah! I remember, I remember! Well, it’s been a little rough…”
Be careful of what [...]
