Well, it's been a great run for a few years, but I must inform all you faithful out there that I have left the band Bone Orchard.

I've had a big ol' blast playing this fine music and getting my doubleneck-guitar-Jimmy-Page jones out of my system, but it's time for me to move on. I've been wanting to devote more time to my own music for quite a while (and my recent trio gigs with my lovely wife Kim and cellist Mark Dudrow are the beginnings of that... check the gigs page for more!) and with my current straight job at the nursing home I hardly have time and energy just to make it to the couch every night to watch "Deadwood" DVDs, much less start my own rock band. Now, maybe I'll have a little more time to get the Feast back together and rocking the roadhouses of New Mexico with some serious electric folk-n-roll! Let's hope so anyway....

Our parting is entirely amicable, and I wish Dan and Carol all the best in the future... hell, I'm looking forward to getting to go hear them as a fan again, which is how all this started with me and them in the first place.

I think Dan's music is just fantastic - somehow incredibly evocative of both the ghostly wild west and the psychedelic days of San Fransisco, not to mention the dark, gothic sensibilities of everyone from Lou Reed to Nick Cave. And that's just what's obvious on the surface... there's so much there it's just crazy. I've said "...damn... I wish I'd written that song..." more often to Dan than just about anybody else. The man can write. And play. And sing.

So, if you were Bone Orchard fans before I was a member of the band, then this will just be another step on the journey for you. If you became a fan while I was a member, then be strong and know that Dan is on top of things and whatever incarnation Bone Orchard takes next will be just as great as each previous incarnation. Stick with 'em, and they'll take you places. Dark places... and absinthe will be served by a mildewed hand....

As for other news, there ain't any. I apologize to you all for taking so long between posts, but the above-mentioned straight job is taking some getting used to. I'm limping along with several projects, and there's still gigs-a-plenty for y'all to come to and kick back and here some tunes, but most of what's going on with me at the moment isn't worthy (yet) of continual updates. I even have some opinions and ideas that might merit blogging a bit, but again - most of my energy for artistic expression is being "banked" for some bigger moments to come in the year.

Hang in there, y'all... I'm still kicking and there will be much more to come a bit later. Adios once again to my friends in Bone Orchard, and I'll see all of you not too far down the road.