The tourist traps are empty
vacancy abounds
Almost like it used to be
Before the circus came to town.”
- M. McAnally, J. Buffett

Welcome to September, 

I’m going to have to leave this place. It’ll be just one more…

Ahoy,

This is a letter to you to tell you about how me and my friends are going to celebrate the end of August and the winding down of summer. We are going to get together and we are going…

Dear Reader, 

It’s a beautiful morning here on Block Island. There are large, white, and puffy clouds in the sky that remind me more of a Kansas plain than a July summer in the Northeast. I’m drinking a coffee at…

Good Friends,

In early June, I returned to my home in Rhode Island from Texas with a deep appreciation for my experience throughout the month of May.

After the moving and enlightening process of running a Kickstarter campaign, I got…

Hello Music Lovers,

I hope that this note finds you in a good place with a strong spirit and belief in the good things to come.

On my end, April has been an amazing month, full of music and discovery…

Dear Friends,

I woke up on Sunday in a rush to get out the door. I answered a few emails, checked my bags to make sure I had what I needed for my Texas trip, and had a quick look…

Hello My Good Friends!

I write to you with a full heart on the day of the release of my newest single record “Letting You Blow Away” while simultaneously finding myself at the halfway point of my Kickstarter campaign. It…

Friends and Neighbors,

We are one week into our Kickstarter campaign for my late April, recording project with producer, Walt Wilkins in Austin, Texas. So far, I have been blown away by the generosity, and the good spirit for the…

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

I haven’t made a full-length record since 2013’s Whalebone. Ten long years. The world has changed so much in those ten years. I could tell you all the reasons why here, but I will…

“Saddled up, pushing through. I am traveling with you.” - Traveling 

Friends and neighbors, 

I am very grateful to be on this earth with you in this year of 2023. This isn’t just a thing I’m just saying. I sincerely…

High five! 

Good greetings. Peace to you and your people. I just want to write you this quick note to let you know about some upcoming dates with my friend, the brilliant Abbie Gardner. It’s a Fall tour and it’s…

Hello Treasured Friends, 

I just got home from a great tour of the West and my enthusiasm levels are running high. Beautiful drives across the Mississippi, and Kansas into Colorado, Wyoming, and back to Nashville, TN. All the shows…

Mahalo,

The September sky over old Harbor was spectacular when I sat down at the empty outside bar to speak into my handheld phone machine to dictate this note to you. Clouds parted just enough to reveal A pinhole of…

Hello Song Enthusiasts, 

Once again I write to you from Block Island to tell you the good news that the second single "Waiting on a Brand New Day" from my upcoming record will be released today, August 26.   The recording…

Friends, 

I am writing to you now from the small bunkhouse on Block Island. Only 9 miles off the coast of Rhode Island and my homeland of Westerly, Block Island is on the Nature Conservancy’s very short list of “Last…

My Friends, 

If you’re lucky to live long enough you are gonna lose a few battles, pass through a few relationships and lose a few friends and fellow travelers along the way. The ephemeral nature of time on earth becomes…

Waaazzzz uuupppp???? 

Hello my good friends. This is a very quick note to let you know that I will be performing one more show with my great friend Danielle Miraglia at one of the very best listening rooms in the…

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My notes say that I wrote it on Sept 24, 200I in Milford, CT. I turned thirty one that year. I had left Florida in a hurry and moved in with Amy, Mitch and Emily that…