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About The Song: On a Night Like This
I’ve had this song in the saddle bag for a long time. It was part of a trilogy of songs I wrote several years ago and no matter how long...
About The Song: We Will Walk Though The Streets of The City
Marco suggested this song, sending me a version performed by New Orleans street performer, “Mother” Mary Margaret Parker. I haven’t been...
About the Song: Here’s The Thing About America
I wrote the song back in April of 2020 when covid had already locked us out of the studio. One day, with a guitar and a notebook and no...
About the Song: Hold Back The Water
I spent four years working as Joe Kennedy II Chief of Staff, then another eight more years in Washington working on public policy in...
About the Song: I Walk the Line
This song, that Johnny Cash wrote to his first wife, was one that I felt could be a “Twisted Cover” - a song everyone knows that can be...
About the Song: The Girl From St. Lucy
My mother’s parents both died young. From her teenage years on she was raised by extended family. She had an aunt who was a nun who...
About the Song: Irresistible Targets
In the 80's I was introduced to John Stewart, the same John Stewart whose face I stared at on the Kingston Trio album covers– a man who's...
About the Song: A Thousand Cuts
This song is the second track on my record, Gin & Rosewater. It’s an exploration of all the ways we can inflict – or feel –emotional...
About the Song: Belvedere
Belvedere is an ode to loneliness, to love lost. The topic is not new by any means– so I attempted to convey that sense of loss in a...
About the Song: Everything
This is the narrator talking to himself. The litany of things he “doesn’t need” is split between things he may truly not need and things...