Download my new EP "Christmas On Lane Street" and all the money goes to charity!!!

playing with Josh Ritter on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

"Kathleen"

playing with Josh Ritter on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

"Rattling Locks"

The Small Ponds: From Raleigh to Austin: A Story of Success...and so far one really great video...

Currently in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas after another amazing night at the White Water Tavern. We shared a great show with our travel companions My Cousin, The Emperor and an awesome band from Murfreesboro, TN called Glossary. The previous night we had been in Knoxville at Patrick Sullivan's, a favored Old City whore house to the locals. In the performance space you can still see the plaster remains of where many walls divided the place into little sex dens. Culture!

But most importantly on our trip so far, we have made a quite enjoyable music video to one of our 2011 Love Hangover selections, "Something Stupid". Please enjoy it, and please pass it on!

The Small Ponds on Sessions at Studio B! (Brought to you by our dear local NBC-17 news channel)

Recorded on March 3rd, The Small Ponds show up for the Sessions at Studio B...

Back from San Francisco -- LIVE at The Fillmore!!

The Fillmore is probably the coolest, most alive venue that I've played. Not necessarily the prettiest, or most comfortable, or even the largest, but it is alive with all the musicians that have performed there in the past. I couldn't believe that I got to be on stage there with Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band. We filled out the horn section with Jeff Bordes on trumpet and Danny Sandoval on tenor sax. Both fantastic players with charisma for miles.

Shows with Josh Ritter...

What could be wrong about playing shows with an amazing songwriter and some of my best friends? Nothing. It was amazing. The Trocadero in Philly, the House of Blues in Boston, Terminal 5 in New York, and the 9:30 Club in D.C. An amazing trip. I'm posting a video from the Terminal 5 show of Kathleen. I wrote the horn arrangement for this tune, and took a rediculous little bari sax solo in the middle of it (not my own suggestion). The sound quality is not great, but you get the idea...

...and just when I thought things couldn't get any better, I'm off to San Francisco (along with my beautiful wife) to wrangle a horn section for Josh's sold out show at the Fillmore on Feb. 25th.