Do you know the song Ghost In This House? It used to be a much harder song for me to sing back when I was a ‘no try’ singer. Alison Krauss makes it look so easy!
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I was in my hometown of Charlottesville, VA on August 12th 2017, the weekend of the deadly 'Unite the Right' neo-Nazi 'rally'. Really, it was an orchestrated, pre-meditated street-battle attack, not a 'rally'…
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I moved to LA about three months ago. It was very sudden, a leap, almost into the unknown. I have always been prone to grand sudden changes, and sometimes in the past, when I was younger and unhappier, they would be destructive.
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Recorded in 2003 in Lucknow, India, these recordings were intended to be a tool to network and begin the path towards my 2006 album "Choreography". But I later found out that many people considered The Lucknow Demos to be an album of it's own, one that they loved and would pass around to their friends.
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I've written quite a few songs with lyrics that sound like they are about/for a romantic interest, partner, or lover, but actually aren't. Some of them are about non-romantic personal relationships, like with family members, but in many of them, the "you" is a feeling, a concept, or another side of myself.
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I'm thinking today about the song 'Solipsist' from my 2006 album 'Choreography', and what a long evolution it had to become what it is on the album. I wrote it in the first year that I was studying dance at VCU (2001), on guitar, …
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Twenty years ago I was preparing to make this, my second album, From The Blue House. Twenty years later I'm starting work on my sixth album, and it's a kind of perspective that the girl on this album cover couldn't have even imagined...
Read Moreit’s a wild ride, sometimes… most of the time, actually. it’s up and down, inspired then depressed, adored and rejected, hopeful then pessimistic. it’s mostly the business side of the music that is all those things though, not the music itself. however, they can be hard to separate.
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