I have roughs of nine of the songs that I am working on for my next CD release, Backstage At the Resurrection.  I brought them with me on the road so that I could listen to them critically and add or take away what I thought would make them...

Flying back from the Northeast Region Folk Alliance (www.nerfa.org) I watched a film called Julia/Julie, starring Meryl Streep (www.merylstreep.com) as Julia Child, the famous chef.  (www.pbs.org/juliachild/ )     The story itself was...

I wrote this post last Friday, but didn’t get a chance to post it til today:   I am at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance here in upstate New York and I have seen literally dozens of people perform.    All of them gave me something to write...

I am on a plane back to Los Angeles after attending the Northeast Folk Alliance Conference (http://www.nerfa.org/) , as many of you already know. At the conference I had the opportunity to perform on their mainstage.   The best thing about that is...

This past week end I heard many songwriters at the Far-West Folk Alliance Conference (www.far-west.org) and one of the things that stood out amongst the really great lyric writers there was the way the first line that they sang lured you into their...