I was recently invited on the Setlist Music Company’s podcast—the primary purpose was talking about The Muse in my life.
Just like I did in 2017, I have created a submission video for the NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2018! The difference,
I just received word that I’m officially a 2017 International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist for my song Say No More—which represents
And I’ll say it again: Nothing is more flattering than someone covering your original song. This time it’s Jon Cyr
In 2009, I penned a line in As the Crow Flies that said, “from where I stand, my home is
With 36 years of life and 17 years of music under my belt, it’s refreshing to say that I tried
Having heard whispers for months and hollers for weeks (from fans), I finally entered the NPR Tiny Desk Contest in
Just weeks before the inevitable bombardment of Christmas songs, I wanted to present to you this most unique Halloween song.
As I’ve been creating this new album, I’ve taken the time to roughly record the tracks, so that I can
Perhaps one of my favorite songs I’ve ever had the chance to pen, As the Crow Flies is a love
As a musician in this day and age, one must know a thing or two about marketing. Unfortunately, it’s simply
I’ve been playing my songs for a LONG time so, in an effort to do something different in the New
When I moved to Nashville, in October of 2009, I was immediately greeted by a number of signs that not-so-subtly
As an encore for my latest online concert on Concert Window, I decided to play one of my older songs
Inspired by the famous Thomas Edison quote, “opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
As the last song in my Acoustic Christmas series, I decided to try and tackle Oh Holy Night, the most
As long as I can remember, I’ve been enchanted by the ole Christmas carol Do You Hear What I Hear?
As the second installment in my Christmas song series, I’ve decided to go with a little-known ballad by a well-known
I recently stepped into a recording studio in Los Angeles to record a small batch of Christmas songs for a
In re-designing my Twitter page the other day, I schemed up a design that features one of my favorite lyrics
Growing up, there was a crudely cut out quote posted to our refrigerator door and, as long as I can
Showing tell-tale signs that we are alive, Everybody is leaving something some time. We are always leaving or being left
Thanks to ReverbNation, I now have a free mobile app available for download! This is really cool little program that
Life is full of fun surprises. Yep, a big surprise for me was that my original song That Moon was
Standing proud as track #1 off of my new album, Some Days I’m a Lion, is “This Too Shall Pass”
Track number one on my 2010 EP Long Before the Wheel is a song called Leave Oregon — it was
I enlisted the help of a full band this last weekend at Someday Lounge in debuting a number of songs
In the 100+ songs that I’ve written, only a handful have been written in a single day. Yesterday was one
This is an original song that I wrote in 2010 but I wanted to post it today, with lyrics, because
Between the 17 metaphors for growth, all rhyming with oooo, and the dangerously “artsy” nature of the song, writing We
When I say I come from a long line of the Music Makers and of Soldiers for the Muse, I
In late 2006, two very gracious friends of mine surprised me with a plane ticket to Europe, providing me with
While perched on top of Mt Pilatus in Lucerne, Switzerland, I had the opportunity to observe some of the most
In 2003, my brothers and I were all independently going through our share of difficulties in this life; trying to
Although I first heard the phrase Whistle Stop in a poetry class in 2004, it took me two years to
After surviving a substantial break-up with my college sweetheart in 2004, my four-walled apartment began closing in on me and
There are many times in our lives that something leaves us before we’re ready to see it go. Leaving a
There is a humble river from my childhood that runs through the middle of Lander, WY — the place of
On my 25th birthday, I awoke to find that I was no longer a child. The carefree days of childhood
When lovers quarrel, the conversation often leads to the definitive question, Should we work it out or should we part
When assigned to write a descriptive poem about a landscape in a University of Oregon poetry class, I found myself
In the wake of my dark and dismal song from 2006, What I Feel Like As Winter Comes, it seemed
During the height of my Dave Matthews fanship, I wrote a stream of consciousness song that I hoped would resemble
In the Spring of 2004, I took a poetry class at the University of Oregon where we were assigned to
In 2004 I made a conscious decision to stop writing pop-rock monsters and to start writing simplistic folk tunes with
My cousin Grant teaches 2nd grade and across the years he has creatively used my music within his classrooms to
One of my favorite songs from the Long Before the Wheel album is the last track, We Grow. It’s my
Track #4 off of my Long Before the Wheel EP is a short and sweet tune called Clover. While most
In August, I received a phone call from one Amy Weber telling me about an exciting new TV show that