New Year, Old Passions

New Year, Old Passions

A sign of things to come for 2017.  Starting up instagram, writing new songs, teaching lessons, beginning booking, and a lot more.  
The Sounds of Silence

The Sounds of Silence

Walked from Bryant Park to Ground Zero, then to Battery Park. James Taylor and Paul Simon performed earlier in the day, but their songs still echoed through the concrete canyons in harmony with the sound of silence. In every way a song from the 1960’s captured...

Soulful Miles Session – Then and Now

It’s with such reflection that I listen to the songs from the Soulful Miles recording session. The session itself came during finals week of a fall semester, in Potsdam that means it has been snowing and below zero for a week or two. By THEN I had been...

Sailing

This song was crafted out of an urge to have a more “jazzy” sound after hearing a student playing around with some minor jazz progressions last summer. The music was originally just an AB form with the momentary modulation in the chorus; it wasn’t until just...

Origins of “Soulful Miles”

The tune itself was one of several lyrical concepts (including Sailing, 8, and Sew Me Up) that started this whole singer/songwriter thing in mid-July of 2009. The song is a starting point from which I go searching for purpose and reason through the rest of the album....