In 2006, I was in the first year of my road-dogging, still fresh-faced, energetic, and full of my signature hopeful positivity. I had made a record with my dear friend Jim Brunberg, the owner of Mississippi Studios in Portland, who’s […]
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In southern Utah there is a tiny town called Monroe, somewhere in the middle of Fishlake National Forest. Drive west of the stunning red rock and hoodoos of Moab and down a lonesome road. Go east off the highway and […]
I started playing gigs when I was 18. The first gig I ever played was at the Star E. Rose on NE Alberta Street in Portland. You couldn’t call it a club, really. It was a friendly coffee shop with […]
When Rebecca Loebe told me that she had scored us a gig at the Birchmere, I was thrilled. She and I were headed out on tour together in the fall of 2009. We had 35 shows in 33 days. Thankfully, […]
In my last column, I mentioned that the Kerrville Folk Festival is the main reason that I expatriated from Portland, OR and have found myself living in a 1972 ranch house in South Austin with a husband, two kids, and […]
What really got me into touring full time was my first trip to the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2005. Growing up in Portland, OR, I always figured there wasn’t much for me down in Texas, but an 18-day camping festival […]
I was 10 the first time I visited the Bay Area. It was my birthday and my parents flew me down from Portland to visit a dear aunt and uncle in Walnut Creek, CA. We took the BART to San […]
Back in 2008, my touring partner John Elliott and I drove around the Harvard Square area near Boston a few times in search of the famous Club Passim. I had been touring the country for a few years and had […]
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