June 15, 2011  Brooklyn, NY Word up from the heart of sunny downtown Brooklyn! Me, myself and my metro card have been roaming the streets of NYC all week on a bit of a working vacation. I left lovely uber-rural Rappahannock county Virginia and rolled right into the concrete innards of the big city… A bit of a polar shift….   see more…

June 1, 2011 Rappahannock County, VA It’s true. I’m down in the holler again. With the cow cries and the fireflies, the Virginia pine and Virginia wine. Well, actually it was Virginia sparkling wine. And it was delicious and served to me by dear friend, teacher and mentor Paul Reisler when I arrived on his doorstep. I’m staying at Paul’s…   see more…

February 2, 2009Rappahannock Co., VA Happy Groundhog Day from down in the holler! It’s been far too long since I’ve visited my favourite county in America and I’m soaking in the sweet glory. My happiness at being in Virginia is diminished only by the sad cause for my trip. I came down for the memorial service of friend, teacher and…   see more…

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…

February 20, 2006Sperryville, VA Greetings from the beautiful rolling hills and hollers of Rappahannock County, Virginia. Am staying in a little cabin at the Smokehouse Winery with a few of my most beloved friends. We all came down from Canada for my best friend’s wedding which was, I must say, justa bout the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Have…   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…

February 9, 2004Sperryville, VA I must say, ’tis rather brrrr down here in the frozen Virginia holler! Have been visiting the Blue Ridge Mountains and steeping in the glory of rural Virginia yum. Played an amazing gig down here on Saturday night at the Smokehouse Winery. Got to sing all night in a gorgeous little stone cottagy thatched roof medievally…   see more…

January 27, 2004London, Ontario Hello my lovelies. Here I am snuggled up to my computer as yet another ginormous winter storm comes down upon us. I must say, I am getting rather sick of being painfully freezing cold all the time! And not to mention the whole scraping layers of ice of your windshield thing whilst cursing like a sailor…….   see more…

September 22, 2003Gid Brown Hollow, VA Greetings again, from the wet wilds of Virginia. I’m back in the hollow after a truly insane trip down to Nashville and all points in between!! Had a serious blast at the Nashville New Music Conference meeting crazy talented (and rather stylish) folks from all over. Then I headed up to the Bristol area…   see more…

September 24th, 2002Sperryville, Virginia It is always so very beautiful here I can hardly believe it. I have been getting lots of sleep and having an attempt-at vacation. I’m trying to relax but there is so much rushing around the brain and things to do and songs to write and packages to mail off to yonder land… I have been…   see more…