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Hello everyone!

It has been a while since I last did a blog post (and this will be a short one to get my feet wet again). Now that the U.S. election has happened and a potential COVID vaccine has been announced, … Continue reading

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The Ballad Project

I am excited to announce my first-ever album of ballads: What You Don’t See As a musician I may be best known for a particular solo guitar style I invented in the late 1980’s that involves percussion and funk grooves. … Continue reading

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“Funkin’ At The Junction” live in Wales

Here is “Funkin’ At The Junction”, the last of four live videos from my concert at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales in September 2017. It is a funky (and fun to play) composition that I debuted at the Orange … Continue reading

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My Now Hear This interview

I really enjoyed doing this podcast interview in front of a live audience at the NAMM Show in January! Thorough research, thoughtful questions…and some laughter 🤣 http://www.NHTE.net

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“Delayed Train” live in Wales

I thought I would share a live concert video from my concert in Aberystwyth, Wales September 2017. “Delayed Train” started off life as a tune called “Train” on my 1995 album Metal. The tune uses metal fingerpicks percussively to create … Continue reading

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The day I lost my Leatherman: a cautionary airline guitar story

I want to share an experience I had traveling with guitars last summer. I was dropped off late to Toronto Airport to catch a flight to Beijing. I had two acoustic guitars in professional carbon-graphite flight cases as well as … Continue reading

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A big year

My own personal 2016 was such an enormous year that I feel the need to write it down. It was amazing not only for the vast traveling I did, but for all the experiences and challenges I had along the … Continue reading

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John Fahey: A Tribute

I first heard John Fahey‘s solo acoustic guitar playing on an album when I was a teenager. I liked his strange, minimalist, visually and emotionally evocative instrumental compositions, performed in open tunings in an alternating-bass fingerpicking style. I found his … Continue reading

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Three days in Odessa, Ukraine

I had always wanted to see Odessa, ever since watching the 1925 Sergei Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkim in high school. The brilliantly-conceived scene of horror and tragedy distilled into an ironic symbol — a baby in a buggy rolling … Continue reading

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Let’s get bored

When I was in China last fall I watched a teenage girl on a Beijing subway say goodbye to a friend getting off at a stop. As soon as they had waved goodbye and the doors closed, the girl pulled … Continue reading

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