I real­ize it’s been a long time since I’ve updat­ed the site with any sort of, say, rel­e­vant info. You know, ​“big gig com­ing up!” or, ​“just record­ed this amaz­ing album,” or even ​“I’m a proud father of a beau­ti­ful baby boy.” It’s kind of a shame, because all of those things hap­pened, some of them more than once.

I do keep things flow­ing a lit­tle more reg­u­lar­ly on Twit­ter, but like all things social, media includ­ed, I’m awk­ward at best. So here’s a super-quick recap of all sorts of fun things I nev­er took the time to write about and prob­a­bly should have:

A few days at the Pearl with the super-tal­ent­ed song­writer Chris Koza…a few nights at the James Hill Library for a num­ber of Real­phon­ic radio shows—includ­ing a ​“reunion” show with my good friend Ted­dy Mor­gan, in whose Bar­rio East stu­dio I record­ed a few songs with the beau­ti­ful (and also super-tal­ent­ed, can we just say every­one I’m writ­ing about is super-tal­ent­ed?) Lily Costner…a great album with Lucy Michelle, where I got to wit­ness first­hand the cre­ative whirl­wind of the John Munson/​Chan Pol­ing pro­duc­tion team, whose band the New Stan­dards I’ve been hav­ing fun play­ing with…the begin­nings of a new record with my friend Carl Broemel, who along with band­mate Bo Koster is all over Neko Case’s amaz­ing new record, who joined us over at Wits where we com­plete­ly shred­ded pub­lic radio with Iron Maiden’s ​“Num­ber of the Beast.”

There’s a lot more that I could write about, but to be hon­est it all gets a lit­tle hazy as the most amaz­ing thing that’s hap­pened to me recent­ly was the birth of my son sev­en months ago. Life as a father has been excit­ing, chal­leng­ing, exhaust­ing, and inspir­ing. (But most­ly exhausting.)