Out on the lawn there arose such a clatter! Sometimes, as they say, Christmas do come early. I found Johnny Stone's "Christmas Rock In Oz" under the tree and couldn't wait until Yuletide to unwrap it. What a rockin' gift! I know a bit about…

Ok, so I'm just a percussionist, and if your only tool is a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail. I get it. And I also get that our songs are our children, so we should be very careful about whom we let them play with. When I first heard…

Sitting around in my shop a couple of days ago with the Goodall and the Zoom H4N. First time I've really messed with using the internal mics on the H4N in multitrack mode

improv in the bathroom. Prepared 1936 National/Regal dobro

improv in the bathroom. prepared 1936 Regal/National dobro

what is your floor?

The Tenderloin is only few streets in San Francisco where the homeless and drug addicts congregate its kind of at the bottom of four hills so you have to walk up a steep hill which ever direction you try to leave the area. which kinda leaves them…

A song influenced by my recent visit to San Francisco and seeing the redwoods for the first time WHERE THE TREES GROW INTO GIANTS I had to travel thousand’s of miles to find it That goldmine up there in them there hills Where the rivers…

I think my cheeks ached when I got on the plane to come home from California I had smiled so much. It was the blue sky with the sun what else can you do but smile SMILE Watching from the shoreline as the…