Good news! I’ll be back soon, actively seeking to book gigs for dates after December 1. And now I can share more about the reason for my extended hiatus. Today is the happiest birthday I’ve celebrated in my long and beautiful life. I’ve had some good ones, but this is on a different level. MaryFrances, my wife of 48 years, received her long-awaited lung transplant two weeks ago. Today, she’s out of the hospital and her recovery is going very well. She is breathing on her own for the first...

Sometimes time flies. Sometimes it crawls. For the past two years, time in my life has done both, usually in crazy spurts that have nothing to do with what I want. Time crawls when I want it to fly, and it flies when I wish it would crawl. I looked at the calendar this morning and saw it’s April 20. And I realized it was two years ago today that my debut album dropped and we celebrated with an amazing party and show. Much of that day seems like yesterday, but 730 days have passed. That’s a...

I am taking an indefinite hiatus from performing. Hopefully, this will be a relatively brief break. I still have a Christmastime gig lined up, but I will not actively pursue scheduling more shows until after the calendar turns to 2026. The key word here is “actively.” If someone approaches me about playing during the next few weeks and months, I’m happy to discuss and, if possible, work out acceptable arrangements. But I won’t be initiating those conversations. Circumstances beyond my...