This song came about in a simple way – I was sitting in a hotel room in a suburb outside Detroit in the winter time. For those of you who travel a lot, you know that travel is glamorous and fun 20% of the time but very lonely the other 80% or so. You often find...
I wrote “The Inevitable Letdown” in New York City in 2009. I had two things on my mind: The stock market crash that led to the 2009 recession: As reports came out regarding the short-sighted greed of the financial industry, it reminded me of the same ravenous...
In the summer of 2015, I did something nice for myself – on the way home from a teaching engagement in Tunisia, I booked myself an Airbnb with a piano in Paris for 5 nights. It was my own “Artist Residency”! In the morning, I’d zigzag through the boulevards of the...
