Play for Love
This is my third CD. The first, “Faith”, was very much a blues CD. The second, “Down at the Aloha”, showed my growing interest in soul music, and had a stronger storytelling bent. This one, “Play for Love”, is harder to categorize, and is much more personal.

In the six years since my last CD, I’ve become a father and watched my two daughters begin their journeys into childhood. I’ve tried hard to balance a heavy performance and teaching schedule with a heavy schedule as ‘dad’. The songs on this new CD are the ones that bubbled to the surface, through all the stress and craziness of early parenthood.

Stylistically, the songs show blues and soul influences, but don’t fit obviously into one bag or the other. They come from places of beauty and fear, wonder and anger and pain. Honestly, these are not songs that I sat down and tried to write. I didn’t have time for that. These are songs that I needed to write.

When I began to think about recording these songs, I wanted the recording process to be as honest as the songs themselves. So I picked a small studio -- The Sugar Shed in Bath, NH -- and gathered three of my favorite musicians: Jan Schultz on Fender bass, Brett Hoffman on drums, and Ira Friedman on Hammond organ and Wurlitzer electric piano. We played all the songs live, in the same room together, and let them come to life. And that's what's on the CD.

Down At The Aloha (SOLD OUT)
Over 50 minutes of original soul and funk-filled blues. The core band is augmented by a kickin' horn section and other special guest musicians.

Faith (SOLD OUT)
The band's debut CD.

Click here to read more about the recording of this album.