The Backroom Series Volume 2: Meeting and Leaving
About The Backroom Series Volume 2: Meeting and Leaving These songs tell little stories of meeting someone interesting for the first time or leaving someone painfully for the very last time; of happily reconciling with your girl after she returns from a business trip or sadly saying goodbye when you are drafted into the Army; or in the case of Woody Guthrie, leaving the parched town of Pampa, Texas for the crowded, but exciting streets of Downtown Los Angeles in 1937. About The Backroom Series: Unreleased, Unfinished Tracks I have been playing the guitar, singing, and writing songs since ... [Read More]
The Backroom Series Volume 1: Voyages through Time and Space
About The Backroom Series: Unreleased, Unfinished Tracks I have been playing the guitar, singing, and writing songs since I was a kid growing up in Minneapolis. My father, a self-taught guitar player, showed me how to play basic guitar chords and tried to instruct me to read music. But I was impatient and started playing songs by ear, based on what I heard on records and KEVE, the country station, and WDGY, the “modern radio” station that played rock-and-roll. Since 2008 I have recorded about 40 of songs on five albums (available on Bandcamp.com), working with some great musicians and ... [Read More]