rock and americana melding chrissie hynde sass with tom petty twang

i'm a singer/songwriter, musician, and bass player for the modeens and the cordials living in tucson, az. and now I'm finding a new voice as a blogger and writer spewing out stories real and imagined - thanks to an inner world fed on isabel allende, tolkien and faulkner. some of it spills through this blog.
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gig alert! the modeens cover "who's next" this saturday

gig alert! the modeens cover “who’s next” this saturday

Just a little plug for my rock n roll band, The Modeens – we’ll be playing at the beautiful Rialto theater in downtown Tucson this Saturday – okay, tomorrow – and covering songs from one of The Who’s best albums ever, “Who’s Next”. (Yes, they’re doing what you think they’re doing.) Since I’m doing some...
new album in the works

new album in the works

Hey, yall It’s been a while since the last album of solo material (since about 2006, damn!) and I’m finally working on a new album – tentatively titled “in my own little world”. This one will be a lot quieter, a lot folkier than my output has been lately. I grew up and learned to...
gig alert: santa cruz farmer's market * june 23rd

gig alert: santa cruz farmer’s market * june 23rd

I just did my first farmer’s market gig – Santa Cruz Farmer’s Market – formerly close to Speedway and Grand and now at the Mercado de San Agustin, on Congress just west of I-10. A really mellow gig, in a good way! My favorite part was the kids’ reactions. Little babies lighting up at the...