Oftentimes a musician's life, from the audience's perspective, starts and stops with live performance and whatever content posted on social media. It is the in-between stuff that really adds the color to our nomadic lifestyle. The Transient Sessions is a way for me to share with you a little something of myself in-between the shows in the most potent and honest form of communication I know: Music.
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The Transient Sessions: Indianapolis, IN - Promised Land
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Promised Land is a song from the 2017 release "But I've Seen The Stars". I am not sure when I wrote this one exactly but it had to have fallen sometime between 2013 - 2015, which is now a long time ago and that ... blows my mind. With almost every song I write there are parallel narratives. The first being the story taken at face value. In this cas…
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The Transient Sessions: Indianapolis, IN - I Won't Back Down
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My latest Transient Session is Tom Petty's "I won't Back Down" filmed in Indianapolis, IN. I wanted to release this song next since it's the first video after my battle with respiratory failure... (For those of you who do not follow me one social media, I was in the ICU in October) However, in light of the recent tragic news from Waukesha WI, I wan…
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The Transient Sessions: Madrid, Spain - Boots of Spanish Leather
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I first encountered this Bob Dylan song when I was 10 years old. I remember instantly losing myself in the song's narrative and feeling a sense of companionship and peace. The dialogue between the two characters, on paper, couldn’t be further away from my lived experience at that time. Despite that reality, I was still able to connect with the song…
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The Transient Sessions: New York City - "Against The Grain"
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Against The Grain is a new song and has yet to be “officially” released. The recorded version for the album is actually a bit different than what I do here. One evening in NYC, I was waiting to take the stage and had no idea what I should start with. It needed to be a song I connected with personally but also upbeat enough to properly meet the list…
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The Transient Sessions: New York City - "The Boxer"
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This song has a special place in my heart. When I was younger, my parents would often play music in the house. As a result, I have always associated specific songs with my parents. One evening, while listening to music with my father, "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel came on. Something in him changed. Up to that moment the music had served as a b…
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