This fall started out with a fantastic run of Poor Old Shine shows in the south, midwest, and northeast.  Some highlight shows for me were playing at Music City Roots in Nashville with the amazing Wood Brothers who I have been listening to for years, playing in the beautiful remote mountain town of Thomas, West Virginia, and playing in  a National Park ( Cuyahoga Valley NP) in northern Ohio.

All of this was capped off with the release of our Debut record, a New York Times blog review, another run of shows in the northeast, and the release of a live video of us playing in a tree, which miraculously received a quarter of a million views in one week…

Best coffee shop of the tour goes to: Tip Top Coffee, in the above mentioned Thomas, WV for the incredible art/t-shirts(plus the artist was hanging out there and we hung out with him, nice guy), great atmosphere, and alcohol… and the coffee is good as well

Close runner up: The Frothy Monkey in Nashville.

As if this wasn’t enough stuff to keep me satisfied for the year, I now live in Cambridge, MA as we are writing and performing all of the music for a play, The Heart of Robin Hood, which opens tonight and runs for 6 weeks at the American Repertory Theater.

Life rocks sometimes, and there is a bike wheel in my kick drum.