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Vashon Island Pet Protectors Fundraiser I’ve donated a rare item to VIPP’s online auction. Click HERE to bid on a 60 minute lesson via Zoom with yours truly. Choose your topic: Songwriting, guitar, voice or recording. Other items up for auction include a ukulele signed by Eddie Vedder, Almost Famous swag signed by Cameron Crowe and VIP tickets to see Band of Horses at Seattle’s Paramount Theater. See all auction items HERE. Almost Famous 20th [...]

A Fender guitar autographed by yours truly and my pal Elaine Summers is being auctioned off to raise money for SMASH.SMASH is Seattle Musicians Access to Sustainable Healthcare. A very worthy cause. In addition to the guitar we signed, there is lots of fun Seattle rock stuff including an autographed guitar from a guy named Mike McCready. (Mike's in a band called Pearl Jam if you didn't know.)Speaking of Pearl Jam, Stone's new side project [...]

Health Update Slowly but slowly my health is improving. (Health backstory HERE.) Assuming the trend continues, it shouldn’t  be too long before I’m ready to begin pre-production on my next record. In the meantime, I’ve been dusting off the old live chops. Live & In-Person On November 8 Elaine Summers and I will play a couple of songs at The O Space to help celebrate the release of Vashon Calling, an album to benefit Vashon [...]

Health Update My sabbatical continues while I focus on recovering my health. (For the backstory, read my Healing Music post.) My energy is still low, but the general trend is moving up. Recently I had a stretch where I felt like I was operating at around 50%. After being down in the 20% range so much, that felt amazing. I see light at the end of the tunnel. Actually, I don't feel like I'm in a tunnel at [...]

20 years ago today, on April 7, 1998, Epic/57 Records released my third album, Spacey and Shakin'. I wrote the album with my band The Sinners in mind.  Peter Stroud, Dave Hull, Rob Brill and Elaine Summers all shine on this disc.  Our producer engineer team of Brendan O'Brien and Russ Fowler created what to my ear is a damn cool sounding record.  (Audio dorks might be interested to know that much of the compression [...]

I'll be playing the Chautauqua Music Festival on Vashon Island at 9pm on Friday, August 4. It's a benefit concert to raise funds for youth music programs on Vashon Island. As usual, I'll be joined by Elaine Summers. Plus, I'm thrilled to have Jeff Fielder on guitar. For tickets and info CLICK HERE.