Confessions Of A Closet-Folkie

" Once the cat is bitten, the mice will play shy " and other rubbish sayings... Apparently, Malcolm Carter of Pennyblack Music fa...

The Ride of Our Lives EP now available... Yes , The Ride of Our Lives EP  is finally available for purchase! Read on for the What? , the Wh...

Life is a Carnival... Good times, clean rhymes and riddles. Ah, those were the days. Well, I'm assuming they were, although this footage...

Random Public Service Announcement: FolkAlley.com went online in September 2003, offering live-streaming music over the Internet 24 hours a ...

That one kills and this one saves... Back when I was recording the Undercurrent CD, I was going to toss this song out because I didn't w...

Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 7)  Is there more wretched place than Florida in which to spend the summer months? I sometimes wonder. ...

In a just world... Michael Penn would be the more famous of the Penn siblings. They'd make a real TV reality show about the impen...

Bliss at One's Elbow... Forget the glib "Coldplay with beards" comments bandied about in assorted hipper-than-thou music pages...

Happy Birthday, Mum. Bit of a melancholy day today, really. May 24th is my dear departed mum's birthday, and I've been thinking quit...

Lowry Park Bandshell, Tampa Steve & Ed (with Maggie Council DiPietra looking over our shoulder ) Thanks to all who came out to see The ...

Come Back (CD Update #2) They say you can never go back. You can go back, of course. The thing is, when you do, people look at you funny, a...

Giddy up! (CD Update #1) Don't fall over, but the recording for the upcoming solo EP ( The Ride Of Our Lives) is over. It's not r...

Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 6) For this pasty-faced adolescent in the UK, David Bowie's appearance on Top Of The Pops in 1972 was a bi...

Enjoying the ride. .. "So much ahead of you, so much behind Keeping your balance while walking the wire Flying your flag, any colour yo...

"If there were no music Then I would not get through I don't know why I know these things, but I do"  The cynic in me wants to...

I'm the best singer ever. I know this because my daughter, Emma, told me so after witnessing The Headlights' appearance at the 30th ...

Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 5) I've wanted to be in a band with Ed Woltil since the mid-1980s, when he and his band Mad For Electra reg...

I'd like to announce the simultaneous release of the new Ditchflowers CD, and the Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil collaboration, on the S...

So, that was Christmas...  ... the season of the iPod touch, "Doorbuster Sales" (what a sad term that is) and must-have video game...

Everything is broken... I'm the last person to point fingers at handymen. After all, I'm so inept around the house, that in my eyes,...