I often apologize to my Guardian Angels, so I thought I'd compose something nice for them!

Recorded: December 19, 2008 Guitars: CGDGBD, CGCGCE Lap Steel: EBEG#BE

...breath fire and burn u

that bitch artois

jus ur average orgy. set to music

Recorded December 18, 2008 Guitar: EBEGAD (capo II) Lap Steel: EBEEBE

Recorded December 18, 2008 Guitar: EADGBE

Recorded December 17, 2008 Guitar: EBEGAD Lap Steel: EBEEBE

Recorded December 17, 2008 Guitars: DADGAD and DADGBE

The third installment of a series of reports I did for KUSC taking a closer look at the recording industry from a classical music perspective. A profile of the LA-based Yarlung Records. Interviews with: Bob Attiyeh (Yarlung Records founder…

A Tonefreak colab from a few years ago. Written by my good friend Dennis Coble. He suggested I give it a reggae treatment. Voila!

MMI gave me one of his loops to play with (maybe he'll upload the original loop for comparison). Anyway this is my first real attempt at using a loop so I butchered it pretty liberally. Let me know what you think.

is not enough

"We Know Everything (A Requiem for a Rock Band) is just what it says. It's a requiem for a rock band. We all knew, and most of us were in, that greatest rock band that no one ever heard. Those stories are full of sad clichés like the deal…

"Burning Anna Rose" is a murder ballad. it's about a man who's love takes him out to get him drunk and in so doing, seals her own fate. Despite killing here on a snowy, winter afternoon he knows they'll always be together.

One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield. I said to myself, "Sweet Rain." I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…

Michael Jeffrey showed me a progression on the guitar. I wrote words to go with it.

We were shooting this movie one day when they needed a song for a dance scene. I said, "I wrote a song that might fit here." The director agreed and I ended up getting to write all the music for that movie, RED DESERT PENITENTIARY. directed by…

...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie. A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…