About
I hear my songs with a band mostly, but due to touring circumstances often tour solo or duo...It's a good test of songs to see that they can stand up solo. The songs come out of me hard and heavy-- regularly. They walk the line between Neo Folk, raw well made rock, and rootsy pop. They have A LOT of melody and drive, even when they are quiet. They have a lot of heart, and a good dose of intellect, and every few songs also has a political and social consciousness....sometimes you have to listen twice to get em, though some are as easily grabbed onto as an old hank williams. Some call them Indie Country, some Americana, Some Folk Rock. To me they are the stories of my life and love and what I see in my friends eyes, strangers stories. they are miniature 3-3and1/2 minute films. Writing to music comes to me like breathing and or eating, and its as pleasurable upon completion as great sex. My band lately walks the line between a caveman airplane up in the sky at high speed almost ready to fall apart, and a fine glimmering jewel... in other words...sort of Tom Waits primal meets the pop shimmery ness of say Aimee Mann. other thoughts......Velvet Underground meets Shawn Colvin, I get a lot of comparisions to Lucinda Williams,George Harrison, Counting Crows, an occasional reference to X, Leonard Cohen, Aimee Mann.... I dunno I think I sound like ME...you tell me
