There is only so much time in a day - and quite a few things to do.  I've slowly been peeling back anything I've been doing and seeing what things seem to steal time away from me, what things I…

I have been happily playing with Lowbrow Collective the past one and a half seasons up here in Meadows of Dan/Floyd County, Virginia at all sorts of venues sprinkled just off the Blue Ridge Parkway.  This season will be no…

It has been quite the long haul - I have been working on this studio in some fashion intermittently since November 2021 when ground was first broken for it.  Phase 1 took from November 2021 until March 2022 for construction…

Well - here we are - nearly May!  How's the studio going?  Ha - I will not be done by May.  I didn't even realize how wishful that thinking was when building in a rather remote place in the mountains…

I had the pleasure of meeting the "M" of J&M Guitar back in 2016 when I briefly worked just down the street from the Harmony House music store in Phoenix, Arizona.  Mike is not only an amazing guitar tech, guitar…

2021 brought some great opportunities for me as a musician and a producer. I met Garry L. Cox through a mutual acquaintance and found that not only did we live in some of the same states in a terribly coincidental…

Back in 1992, Dan took a skinny kid with a cheap acoustic guitar and asked him what HE wanted to learn. The kid was able to get six months of lessons with Dan before the kid and his family moved…

 I recently made quite a big move - leaving behind Phoenix, Arizona (and my little bedroom studio) for the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia - moving to a cabin in Floyd County, Virginia - just a mile off the Blue…