I’m playing at the Adelphia Music Hall January 26th with the Colten Settle Band, and thought someone could come up with a name for this new song. Like a competition. Winner gets a free CD or I’ll write a song for you. You’re choice.

I was asked by April over at Common Folk Music to review an album from a songwriter’s perspective. You should know me well enough that I would choose a Spoon cd. Right? I went with Gimme Fiction. An album that I love love love, and one that has made it back into my heavy rotation

Sorry for the foul attitude if you happened to see this. Heck with it…moving forward. But really, just move along…  

This string of video posts that I’m on is a result of Todd Burge and his songwriting tips on his blog. Please do go check him out and like him on Facebook. This song was inspired by, of all things, a Bob Malone song-Gold Rush Inn. When I say inspired, I mean something Todd put

I think we’ll go in reverse order here since our friend Todd Burge is the one that inspired this in a way. So moving on, Todd is putting himself out there with his writing trials and tribulations on his songwriting blog. So yes, you can blame him for this. But you really should go give

The trouble with songwriting is that if you’re doing it right, every song is different. In fact, you should be conscious that this song can’t be the same or even somewhat like the last song. You can be a little too conscious of that sometimes, like now for me, and every chord is speculated upon.

I watched RocknRolla last week and I guess I was moved by it enough to write a song inspired by it. The opening line of narration rambles on a bit, but at the end he says something along the lines of, “…a real RocknRolla F’s things up!” That got me thinking about just taking what

Hola amigos, it’s been a while since I rapped at ya. I’m in the process of recording Alright. I’ve got pretty much everything but the vocals done. So here over the next couple days I’ll have at least one song up on the music page as well as a music player. Wow, that’s been a

I have zero trouble coming up with riffs and the chord progressions for songs, but sometimes I have a lot of trouble with the words. I need them coaxed out of me. I get lazy and don’t put forth the effort sometimes and I end up in these holes. Given as much as I read,

Woot! I was thinking there was nothing to blog about. But the latest episode of Radio Free Charleston is online for your viewing, and there are a couple of people you might know. Like me and Joseph Henry. And Captain Crash and the BeautyQueen. And of course, Rudy Panucci. And you really shouldn’t start a