Album Notes

Welcome to the new Limited Edition EP! The 6 song EP features the live acoustic version of the title track that can be heard across the country on NPR's "Acoustic Café." This album was recorded in January 2004 at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood, CA, & was first available at Austin's South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in March. We did the first four tracks live in the studio, and included the original studio version of "Lighted Up," the 2003 USA Songwriting Competition overall grand prize winner, as well as a new studio bonus track, "Can You Hear Me?"

Many many thanks to all the musicians, engineers, doctors, lawyers, mathematicians & philosophers who made this record possible, you know who you are.

Here's the bio you can find on my website...

I started actively listening to music when my sister brought home a bunch of records that had melted on her dorm room heater at college. The Eagles Live, The Cars' Heartbreak City, and the Rolling Stones, all warped but still listenable. It was hard to find people to expand my musical horizons in my hometown of San Antonio; I mostly just listened to the radio and played along on the piano while everyone else in high school went mudding in their pickups.

At college in Philadelphia, it was tons of Elvis Costello, The Police, and Genesis. People say I mostly sound like a combination of these three, but I think my music is a little more microcosmic; that is, each song is a big description of a detailed event, or an intense emotion. I don't really play or write like a piano man, though piano and Rhodes are my main axes - in most of my songs I wind up hitting the keys really hard, like I wished I played guitar.

Living in Los Angeles now, I'm writing and recording and performing new songs. I mostly write music at home on the piano and lyrics on planes, striving to come up with songs as good as those of my heroes. Working on a few right now...