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January 2025

I took this picture out the window of a rented car twenty years ago. I was 29, on tour in the desert and making long solo drives across Arizona and New Mexico with a bad back, stopping for tacos in towns I'd never heard of…

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The Universal Fire Solo Acoustic

Last summer while I was waiting around for The Universal Fire to come out, I re-recorded all the songs from the new album alone, playing everything myself. I worked mornings and evenings in my friend Maria's barn fronting a meadow and sheep pasture. . .

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October 2024

In college I took a course with Paul Boyer, History of American Thought, 1859-Present. Why 1859? That's when Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which I had read in high school to impress a girl…

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September 2024

Here’s how it works: set your alarm for three but wake at two, details running through your mind like ticker tape. Kiss your half-sleeping wife, say a small prayer at the door to your daughter’s room, mute the buckle of your belt with your palm as you creep down the stairs . . .

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The Universal Fire

THE UNIVERSAL FIRE is out today and streaming anywhere music is available, and I hope you’ll stream the hell out of it, buy it, and share it. I hope the songs will be company, and make you wonder, like I wonder, what we’re all doing and what any of it’s for, if not love.

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August 2024

THE UNIVERSAL FIRE comes out this week, Friday (9/6), and that night I'll be on stage in the Northeast with the full band and I won't be sweating details or re-painting the internet billboard of my face. I'll be playing music with people I love, for people who decided to come hear us. How lucky.

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Solo Modelo

FOR MOST OF A DECADE I spent about a hundred and twenty nights a year on the road with Billy Conway. When we were out duo he played a suitcase drum kit: a snare drum with a Remo conga head, a ride cymbal, a low-boy (sock cymbal) from the 1930’s, and an empty suitcase that carried all these things and served as the bass drum.

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THE UNIVERSAL FIRE (9/6/24)

Friends, It's my pleasure to finally announce the release of the new album THE UNIVERSAL FIRE, coming out this September (9/6) on Fluff and Gravy Records.

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June 2024

My dear friend and fishing companion, my deeply strange uncle and philosopher-poet correspondent, Greg Brown, has released a songbook, and it's fantastic…

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May 2024

Tomorrow I’ll fly overnight to Ireland, new green to new green, leaving the peach tree out by the barn throwing pink sparks and magnolia flowers littering the ground, cherry and plum blossoms just opening.

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APRIL 2024

I took this picture down in Texas on tour with John Convertino this winter. Last night of the trip, wind blowing hard down the street in Marfa, the two of us standing outside the bar and maybe thirty souls inside, some of them just there to shoot pool.

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MARCH 2024

PIETA BROWN – At the end of February I'll play a couple split bills with my friend Pieta Brown in New England, sharing the band and backing each other, reprising a stripped-down version of the show that we toured in December in the Midwest.

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WINTER 2024

Twenty-four years into the new century and I’ll turn forty-eight next week, having lived half my life in the old one. Half a life with the phone plugged into the wall and Code-a-Phone micro-cassettes piling up taped messages.

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DECEMBER 2023

I first heard Pieta Brown back in 2002. Her debut record had just come out and she came through town to play the Cafe Carpe while I was out on the road. I missed the show…

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NOVEMBER 2023

The western tour continues in November with shows in New Mexico and Colorado, starting at the Old San Ysidro Church in Corrales, NM (11/10), and heading north to play San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe, NM (11/11) before rolling up into Colorado…

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OCTOBER 2023

After a show at the Cock'n Bull in Galway, New York earlier this month, I was sitting around having a late drink with the folks who run the place.

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SEPTEMBER 2023

I got up early and built a fire in the scar out by the barn. I read for an hour as the light came up and then decided to rig up and fish. Getting out of the car at the turnout I realized I had an appointment at the dentist but figured, hell, I have an hour . . .

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AUGUST 2023

It's been a hot, rainy summer and what I'd really like to do all day is paint, but modern life is a series of banal instructions delivered directly to the ear with all the subtlety of a car alarm, and certain things must be accomplished…

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JULY 2023

Friday night (6/23) we'll play the last of our four Friday nights at tiny Floodwater Brewing Co, in Shelburne Falls, MA. These residency shows have been special, the good feeling in the good place and no foolishness, or maybe just the right kind.

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June 2023

I came home from the Midwest to the May porch, window corners filled with crabapple blossoms, lawn grown over for no-mow May, which timing dovetailed perfectly with the reign of no-mow wife.

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May 2023

MIDWEST – In the first half of May I'll embark on a Midwest tour that’s essentially a tour of Wisconsin with one show in Marquette, Michigan. Political borders are often captious. Wisconsin is the place where I was born and raised …

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April 2023

In April I'll play four shows with a full quartet in the Northeast, beginning with a return to the Cock'n Bull restaurant in Galway, NY (4/12), a magnificent old barn in the bucolic upstate farm country.

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March 2023

When I say March I mean April. I'm not doing anything much in March except writing this email and minding my own business, various as it tends to be and – so far, at least – endless.

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February 2023

I dropped out of college as a junior in the fall of 1996, after attending a single class. I had rented an apartment, bought my books, and suddenly I couldn't stay. I was tan and strong from working outside, I was in love…

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January 2023

We went down to Tucson and cut a record. The boys flew or drove from Montana, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Texas, and we met up at a little adobe house – north of downtown and across from the blue neon of Gus's Liquor…

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FURTHER ON: THE SONGS OF BILLY CONWAY

Billy Conway would have been sixty-six today friends. A year ago we stood around his bed at midnight and sang him Happy Birthday, and he looked around at his people and said, “Oh Man! Can you imagine a better birthday?”

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December 2022

This guy. Lives in Wisconsin. Knows everything. Born in 1976, he's killing time in a little town ten miles from home, drives a 1984 Suburban, plays a 1973 Martin D-18.

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October 2022

In the first week of November I'll join my old friend Gregory Alan Isakov on the first leg of his fall 2022 European tour…

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September 2022

I sat down at the laminate pressboard desk in a hotel in Lewistown, Montana, last week and made a notebook recon of all the songs that seem to be in play.

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June 2022

The last time I saw Kelly Jo Phelps we met at Captain Jack’s Bar in Sumner, Washington, his formerly bucolic home town, lately devoured by metastatic Tacoma.

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