The rattling in my chest started at a show. Steve Poltz, Joe Pisapia, John Strohm, and I were playing “in the round” at The Basement East in Nashville. The show was great but at a point late in the set […]
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Part One: 1980 In December 1980, I was 16 years old and living in the small mill town of South Berwick, Maine. Maine School Administrative District #35 was comprised of the two towns of South Berwick and Eliot, where Marshwood High […]
Q: When cutting a record in the studio and you have other musicians playing with you, do you walk in with all of those other parts already written/ prepared? A: No, for the most part I just play the song […]
Q. Can you talk about the role of recording engineers when you are recording an album? Do they end up having a large role to play in the final sound? I think that also I am trying to get to something […]
Do you ever write a song that is more or less just ‘there’ on an album, with the other ones that you think of as stronger—but then it takes on a life of its own and winds up playing a much […]
What are your favorite and least favorite parts of touring? Being on the road is like any other addiction. It gets in your blood and it’s hard to shake, and you love it while it drags you slowly down into […]
How does the co-writing song process differ from the alone songwriting process you just wrote about? Co-writing is quite different from writing alone. When I’m working on something alone I have complete freedom. Freedom to experiment, to make mistakes, to […]
Q – One of my favorite quotes about the personal perseverance and tenacity that are required to live a life devoted to the work of creative endeavor is from Ellen Burstyn, when she was on the TV Show Inside the Actors’ […]
Q-I’m sure there are songs that you include in every show. Is there any song that you get tired of singing night after night after night? Along those lines how do you keep the songs fresh for yourself? A-Yes, there […]
Q-What is your songwriting process, if there is one? A-My process is to chase songs down with a butterfly net, catch them, pin them to a Shriner’s hat, put the Shriner’s hat on a drunk monkey, put a pinwheel in […]
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