Dearest peoples...

This confessional comes twofold (an excellent word that goes under used by my standards, thankyouverymuch.):

First of all, on Saturday night, July 12,  we filmed our first concert DVD at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco.
It was absolutely perfect.
Now let me explain: the show was not without mistakes, and I did not remember every chord. I had to use a lyric sheet and I forgot to wear deodorant. My forehead was all shiny on stage because it was hot as f*ck and there were lots of us breathing in there. The day was not without little hiccups and challenges. Literal hiccups, actually. Those suck big time.  But there was just simply some sort of magic that graced our moments on that stage and the time leading up to it. We poured our hearts out and the audience was sweet and supportive, and they laughed at my jokes and poured all their love back to us onstage. It was pure. It was honest.
It was absolutely perfect.
Thank you to every last heart and soul that made that night possible. I will never, ever forget it.

Secondly, but not lastly:
I'm sending along a very special announcement that I'm so thrilled to finally get to write. My first album, an independent release from 2004 called Careful Confessions is being re-released at last!
I've been waiting to get to share this chapter of my life for such a long time, and I'm so excited that it's finally here. but I consider this album a snapshot of where I've been and I'm very proud of it. Not that you asked, but I figured I'd tell you what was going on in my life at that time.  If you don't want to know, simply avert your eyes and go back to what you were doing before you started reading this.
I had just graduated college and was trying desperately to feel like a real musician. I had won a small songwriter contest and the prize was free CD duplication. Lo and behold, I had no CD to duplicate. Lo and behold,  you can't duplicate nothing. Well, I guess you can, but that seems like a waste of time, honestly. So i did what any good, broke, recent grad does. I called my dad and asked him to spot me some cash so I could go in the studio. I recorded six songs with my good friend and wonderful producer http://www.gabrielmann.com. I learned how little I knew about just about everything, and fell completely in love with learning the language of my own music. It was exhilarating and humbling all at once. It was the beginning of what I  hope to be a very long relationship with making music in a studio. We completed the album with some live tracks and called it a day. Well, we called it Careful Confessions, but whatever.

It's strange to have to try and explain your history to someone once they are familiar with your present. Careful Confessions is in a lot of ways very different from the music we make now,  but I am equally as proud of this record as I am of Little Voice. It was made with the same level of commitment and dedication, and the rough edges are there because that's who I am. There are a lot of the same songs and some new (old) ones, and it's a part of my history as a musician and a songwriter. I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did.
And if you don't enjoy the journey, they make great coasters.

lots of love and coasting.

:)

s

-Click HERE to buy Careful Confessions-