I’ve never been one for routine. I crave new experiences. I love meeting new people. I don’t believe that my perception and understanding of the world is intrinsic; but that it has been formed by
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1. Write great songs. Write every day. Set a schedule, you just need to get organized. Make sure your songs are unique. Speak your truth. Be original. But also, be relatable. Remember, you’re building your brand, so be consistent and recognizable. Stay in your style and genre. But don’t be predictable and boring. Challenge yourself!
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Today I added ‘Til It Lasts’ as my Streaming Song Of The Moment. It’s the closing track on my last album Family Ghost (with The Secret Storm) and one of my favorites from that record. For some reason it pops into my head a lot
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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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