Hello and Happy Summer!
Things are getting hot… real hot. First and foremost a big thank you to everyone in Texas who came out and supported. It was great to see everyone and I can’t wait to be back in September… yee haw!! While I was down there I continued working on new songs while getting closer to the finish line for my next record. This week’s video post is another track from the upcoming album. This was filmed with the help of my good friends Mike and Alyssa who made this live performance possible. Shot in one take and completely raw, “Heal” might be one my favorite tunes I’ve written lately. Hope you enjoy!
J

I really hope you are enjoying yourselves RIGHT NOW. Lately, I have been diving into a a bit of philosophical/spiritual teachings and it has been brought to my attention that the only thing that really exists in our lives exists RIGHT NOW. So in this particular moment I am writing this and I sincerely hope that you are having a good day and enjoying the feeling of being alive. That being said, there are some updates I would like to share. The first is some upcoming shows and travel plans. It has been too long but I am returning for a couple of shows in TEXAS! It will be good to see old faces and have some of the best mexican food on the planet. Anyone in the Lone Star State please drop by and say hi! In other news last week I participated in the New York Songwriters Circle at The Bitter End. The kind people at the NYSC posted a video that I would like to share with you- for those who aren’t familiar with the NYSC it’s a showcase of a handful of NYC artists that share the stage and their songs. This week’s video is a song from the showcase. It is a song called “Stay” that will be on my upcoming album- this is a work in progress still but you can get the idea…

I recently discovered an affinity for the field of astrology and read my monthly horoscope. It told me that the month of May will enter soft as a kitten, but end with flourish, like a roaring dragon! As I sit here and assess my month at the half way point I find the kitten part to be pretty accurate. As for the second half of the month, I believe this week’s video post is the beginning of bringing more fire to my month of May. I have had a brief pause in my weekly postings in anticipation for THIS video. I am very pleased to announce an OFFICIAL VIDEO for the song BLINDING LIGHT that I was fortunate enough to create with a very talented friend. It will be available for purchase on iTunes in the near future. You can watch it now at the link below. Share it with your friends. Share it with your family. Share it with your enemies… it might turn them into friends. Share the LOVE.
J

Recently I was with a group of friends celebrating a birthday and we all found ourselves slightly tipsy in the middle of the afternoon. So we wandered back to Greenpoint and proceeded to get on the roof with a camera and guitar. This week’s video post is a compilation of what occurred. No one was harmed but only once did we piss off the neighbors. They came up and said “Hey it sounds like a herd of horses is trampling our building”. So we stopped acting like horses and shot this video. Hope you enjoy!
J

When I first moved to New York I bought a new phone and got a number with a 917 area code. I was pretty excited. I told myself that since I went through the trouble of switching area codes it would make me stay and work hard despite the obstacles. (The little things I told myself to self-motivate) Anyway, I came to find that what wound up becoming my new number was once the number of a man named Gordon Jones. I discovered this because his sister called me almost everyday and left a message for him to come visit her. Along with a grocery list, she would leave all kinds of instructions for Gordon despite the fact that I had told her this was no longer his number. This lasted a solid 8 months, if not longer, and eventually became the inspiration for a song. As I started to play this song live I would try and tell people the back story but I always felt I never did it justice. This week’s video post is my attempt of telling this story with a little more clarity. Hope you enjoy!

When I was a kid one memory that will never leave me is the one of my mother picking me and my sister up from school in a little red Ford Escort. I remember her pulling into the parking lot of Thousand Oaks Elementary after she got off work, we would be released from the after-school daycare program, and bolt to that little red car anxious to get home. After the usual fight with my sister for the front seat we would eventually get moving and mom would turn on the stereo and make use of what was then the ever-so-popular cassette deck. The significant part of this memory, however, came from a very particular cassette tape that she wore out. It was my introduction to this amazing artist, who would change and shape my musical upbringing for years to come. It was no other than Stevie Wonder. The beat. The melodies. The keyboards. The voice… my mom always snapping her fingers while she drove. I will never forget it as his sound cemented its way into my life driving from elementary school back home in a little red Ford Escort. This week’s video post is a cover of what I remember as my mother’s favorite Stevie Wonder tune. Hope you enjoy!