Every year just before our Thanksgiving Eve gig I get spooked - and anxious - both about the music and whether I've been a bear of a d...

Tonight we open our 30th Thanksgiving Eve gig - and the fifth at First Church - with this poem on our way to Tom Waits' classic:  Come O...

I don't fully understand but after a three and a half hour practice tonight for tomorrow's show, this song is going through my head....

In the midst of all our Thanksgiving preparations, I don't want to ignore the reality of Israel and Palestine.   One of the best and bri...

Yesterday I shouldn't have emphasized the burdens - it goes with the territory, yes?   What I should have said is that when I put toge...

One of the things I've learned over the years is that pulling off our local Thanksgiving Eve music benefit is always a blessing and a bu...

Ok so in many ways I am a techno-dinasaur.  In anticipation of THIS year's music festival I finally figured out a way to post a few clip...

The word is in:   apparently my brother's recent seizure came about in the perfect storm of  having to travel to and from SF to DC - t...

From time to time I am asked to comment - or act - in an overtly politically partisan way.   Mostly I ignore these requests because at thi...

One of the many reasons I love our Thanksgiving Eve gig is that it gives us a chance to explore the depth and breath of American popular m...

I am not certain when this realization ripened for me - it was probably 15 years ago or more - but being a church leader now is NOT about ...