This lullaby idea came to me way back in 2013—almost two years before Donald Trump had even announced his candidacy for President.

This lullaby idea came to me way back in 2013—almost two years before Donald Trump had even announced his candidacy for President.
I brought my ukulele to the Royal Palace of Antananarivo. The tour guides and souvenir hawkers were curious to hear it and play it. So I let them.
I think Americans don’t really realize how influential and edgy Roxy Music were before they made it onto our American radios. I didn’t.
The Dizzy Brains: Imagine The Strokes with real problems, not just First World Problems.
Here’s a coincidence. One year ago today I hiked down to Indian Garden in the Grand Canyon with my backpacker guitar and wrote a song called I’ve Done the Math.
My friend Moses asked me to find him an American wife. I (eventually) wrote a song about it.
I brought a bass guitar with me to Madagascar. In part because there is a wanna-be ethnomusicologist inside of me who wants to explore Madagascar’s musical traditions in the baritone, tenor, and alto musical registers. But …
Enjoy these songs – all earworms that are triggered repeatedly by my life in Madagascar since I arrived.
In 1998, through some twist of fate, I was given a free upgrade to first class on a flight from Washington DC to Cape Town. That’s about a 23-hour flight; exactly the kind of flight where …
I’m on another running kick, three or four times a week with the dog. It seems to be the only time I can really listen to music. I’ve always found that doing something physical and not-quite-mindless …
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