Last Wednesday evening, my brother Chris, sent me a text message telling me that Stompin’ Tom had passed away at the age of 77. The first thing I thought was “Well that’s the end of era…” But I didn’t realize…

In June of 2004, Jenny and I were awaiting the impending arrival of Ruby.  For some reason, I had booked a last minute show in the Distillery District in Toronto. It was so last minute in fact, that Jenny and…

(The Three Stages Of Songwriting… )  This is a study of how the germ of an idea for a song can happen years before the actual writing of it. I wrote this song in 2007 but, the seeds for it were…

Chapter 5 One day, during lunch, about a week after our second gig, Keith told me that he was leaving the band. “Leaving the band? Wha’ d’ya mean yer leaving the band? We’re just getting started!” “Yeah, I know man,…