Confessions Of A Closet-Folkie

All that glitters... I'd come back if only you'd let me in I'd be there without warning Bring back pennies, steam t...

RIP Levon Helm A lovely man, and one of the great voices ever. Watching and listening to this clip makes me sad and jubilant at the same tim...

Richard Thompson, w/ special guests Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil - Tampa Theater, Friday, Feb 3rd. I love this theatre. It's gaudy and...

Love is real ... ...and sometimes it's really complicated, messy and ragged, often taking a long time to mature. A bit like songs, I sup...

" 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 ...