April 16, 2006Gid Brown Hollow, VA   In Virginia briefly to pay my final respects to my best friend Jenny’s little 317 year old cabin in the holler. In February she married singer-songwriter Chuck Brodsky and now they’re gonna find themselves a little dream home somewhere in North Carolina. Adieu Virginia, Bonjour Asheville. Sweet! I will miss it here, but…   see more…

November 7, 2005Gid Brown Hollow, VA Back in the holler for a wee spell! Couldn’t head north out of this delicious fall weather quite yet knowing what might be awaiting me up in the great wilds of brrrr… Have been having such amazing adventures. I love my life. Music has been inspired too… Heading home soon to start more work…   see more…

October 31, 2005Gid Brown Hollow, Virginia Happy Halloween! How much do I love this day? Kickin’ it up down in the holler with my friend Jenny and dear amigo Trevor Mills who came down from Pennsylvania to visit. If you click on the more photos link and scroll to the bottom you can see us in our costumes… Can you…   see more…

August 16, 2005Gid Brown Hollow, VA Sooo hot is summer in the holler… apparently 316 year old cabins weren’t made with air conditioning. I am melting. Can barely even strum a chord on my guitar. Thank the Lordess my beautiful friend songstress Olivia Maxwell keeps inviting me over to her dad’s mountain-top manor to go swimming… or I would surely…   see more…

July 4, 2005Gid Brown Hollow, VA All is well in the little cabin in the holler. A hot and lazy Fouth of July with the buzzing bees and the blowing breezes and the gurgling swamp monsters in the nearby pond. No communal fireworks display tonight in this neck ‘o the nowhere woods! So we had to go buy our own…   see more…

September 15, 2004Gid Brown Hollow, VA Greetings once again from the deeeep damp dank beautiful Virginia holler. I am finally coming out of my week of rest and recuperative comatosis from post summer festival/driving season exhaustion. I had the worlds best summer… too much delight to even mention. But I will say, I did well earn my resting. Have been…   see more…

June 29, 2004Gid Brown Hollow, VA Little Darlings,  Once again, down in the holler I am. Been doin’ some serious sittin’ on the stoop like a good mountain-chick pickin’ away at at my banjo. (altho, I’ve still got a lonnnng way to go in the banjo department…) Have also been working so incredibly hard at learning Bach’s Cello suite no….   see more…