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Eternal Damnation
— Scroll down to watch the video for “Eternal Damnation, feat. Joe Moe” — I’m not a Christian, but I love Christian music. I don’t just mean Bach & Handel. I’m a sucker for Christmas carols, Gospel, Protestant hymns, Gregorian …
When I Think of “In My Life”
— Scroll down to watch the video for “When I Think of Love.” — My song “When I Think of Love” was prompted by a line from the Beatles — a couplet from “In My Life” that always puzzled me: …
Old Time Prog
— Scroll down to watch the video for “Old Time Prog.” — When I was in high school and college, I listened to progressive rock. Not exclusively, but a lot. Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, and especially Gentle Giant, were my …
The Invisible Hand is Broken
[Scroll down to view video] Adam Smith’s law of competition is supposed to create an optimal economy of consumers and producers. When a better product appears on the market, the consumer rewards the producer with his or her custom. This …
Millennium Glitch
[Scroll down to view video] In 1999, the year 2000 was going to be the end of the world. Because of the Y2K bug, our computer-dependent civilization would fall into chaos come New Year’s Day. “Two thousand zero zero/Party over/Oops, …
Conspiracy Theories are the False Flags
[Scroll down to view video] In 1969, as an 11-year old Beatles fan, I learned that Paul was dead. The devastating evidence in the clues laced into songs and album art was irrefutable. My only nagging doubt was how they’d …
Notes Toward a Manifesto on Genre Diversity
Recently at a music conference “radio panel” I found myself apologizing for the number of genres I use on my new album (country, power pop, electro pop, bluegrass, jazz, world music; with lyrics comic, political, psychological, philosophical). Until I realized …
The Presumptuousness of the Singer-Songwriter
Anyone who has gotten up to sing an original song in front of a crowd walks a tightrope between the twin poles of humiliating rejection and triumphant embrace. Regardless of what she is singing about, the singer-songwriter trades in intimacy. …
Music Wants to Be Free, Musicians Want to Be Paid
Musician Bemoans Death of the Music Business It all sounded very appealing thirty years ago when a Bay Area programmer first explained to me the concept of the entire catalog of recorded music being accessible from a home computer. I …