Producing

Working on a musical for RS. Something unique having a songwriting goal outside of oneself. As close as I’ll get to the Brill building.

After organizing the two nights this year where people played Sam Larkin songs or Mendelson Joe songs, I think now I would enjoy bringing some of those people to my […]

The thing I liked most at the Mendelson Joe night was Sarah’s daughter acting out the lyric. I didn’t know what she would do when she sat back to back […]

I am loving Margo Needs Money, the book by Rufi Thopre, has the can’t put it down vibe and it makes me wonder if a musical situation ever could be […]

The randomizer put on Wild World by Cat Stevens. I love that Tea for the Tillerman album ever since those adolescent days of summer camp and friends like Beryl Cohen. […]

Guy from Sweden asked me to play on an album he and his whacky Swedish friends are making. He asks me to choose between Patti Smith and Jennifer Castle for […]

At the open stage Honey wanted to meet and practice the Sam Larkin song she will do on Aug 31rst. Afterward I asked if she wanted to perform it right […]

I saw a trailer for a new film about Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was tortured and hung by Hitler for not behaving like a Nazi. Trailer looks very Hollywood […]

Bob Dylan’s sagacity is very present in his memoir Chronicles, Volume One. I particularly liked recounting the Oh Mercy sessions with Danny Lanois, who urged Dylan to delve into weightier […]