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Hard Times and Taking Stock George Jones recorded “Choices” late in his career, and the song carries the weight of someone looking back at a life spent making the wrong decisions. It’s a song of mourning from the perspective of someone who knows exactly why they’re down and out, and that the blame sits squarely…

I Lost It and the Search for Authentic Expression Summer of 2022 was a time of particular transition for Regular Humans, a band marked by transition. Nick and I had just played Chomp Santa Fe the month before, each of us playing drums with our feet. For this show, we recruited Jake Montiel and Justin…

Living inside thousands of hours of recordings, and what the architecture remembers I’ve been living inside thousands of hours of recordings for the past few months. What started as a music curation project, with the goal of finding some tracks to communicate what that project was about, has become something more like an extended meditation…

Why We Create: Meaning-Making as Cosmic Function When we create art together, we’re not “making things up.” We’re tapping into something real—patterns woven into the fabric of reality itself that become personally meaningful when we recognize them. Think about it: are we really unique in the cosmos for needing meaning? Everything learns and grows through…

Recording the Changes in the Air After a year away, my recent trip to New Mexico, a place I lived for nearly 6 years, inspired a new understanding of remembrance. More practically, I felt inspired to go back through the extensive recordings NIck and I made during the course of Regular Humans, our two-person band…

As I drove north out of Santa Fe, my gaze fell on the massive rift valley opening to the north: a huge expanse of sage, Juniper-Piñon, and a shocking variety of landforms that faded brown to dusty blue, crowned with the gold of the horizon and the cerulean dome of sky. The Jemez mountains to…

Uncertain Beginnings Another new beginning that sparks an archival return Among the legendary chance encounters that shaped musical history—Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meeting by accident on a train platform, Lennon being introduced to McCartney at a church fair—there’s my own, much smaller story. It didn’t change the world, but it significantly changed my life.…

“But I’m still not happy / I feel like there’s something wrong.” Neil Young’s “Revolution Blues” stands as one of the most controversial and powerful songs in the rock canon. Originally recorded for 1974’s “On the Beach” – the middle chapter of Young’s legendary “ditch trilogy” – the song emerged from one of the darkest…

Ruby Waves Carried Me Home I feel the feeling I forgot Standing twenty feet from the stage the first night, the sound was so close it blurred: distorted, heavy, and physical as well as musical. With only a routine amount of cannabis in my system, the whole thing widened into a psychedelic experience. Out of…

A Minor Adventure From Improvisation to Gear Setup to Southwest Journey Adventure and improvisation seem to travel together. Adventure can be defined by the presence of the unexpected, and improvisation offers the creative potential to respond effectively to it. Or maybe it’s the other way around: improvisation creates the unexpected, a lived experience where chance…