4/9/26

My new single “Dottie’s Dance” is available now on Bandcamp and will drop on the streamers on 4/20/26.

Dottie’s Dance” Is a new instrumental single featuring Steve DiStanislao on drums and Allen Hinds on guitar. I played all the other instruments.

I wrote this piece to honor and celebrate the memory of a wonderful little creature named Dottie (A Papillon/ long-haired Daschund) who enriched our lives more than I can say.

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4/8/26

I met Jono Manson three years ago, shortly after I moved to Santa Fe. We quickly discovered that we really enjoyed one another’s company, and we began writing songs together. Since then, we’ve managed to complete quite a number of them, despite the fact that we are both always so busy with other musical pursuits.

We’ve recorded,mixed and mastered the first batch and this collection, “Playing Day for Night” will be released on May Day. We’ve written several more and have plans to record and release them later this year.

Even more wonderful than the common ground we share as musicians is the fact that, to an extent, we come from different places, both as composers and producers, so it’s a partnership in which we challenge each other to approach things differently than we might on our own. At this stage in the game, that is always a welcome opportunity. Here’s a short clip of one of the songs from our forthcoming collection:

“Calling You Home”.

4/8/26

The finalists for this year’s New Mexico Music Awards have been announced and I’m honored to be one of five finalists for the Norman Petty Producer’s Award for my work on Singer/Songwriter Kipp Bentley’s album “Night Letter”.

A huge debt of gratitude to the wonderful musicians who contributed to this record - new friends and old:

Jono Manson and Bernie Chiaravalle on guitars • Graboff on guitar/pedal steel/mandolin

Mark Clark and Steve DiStanislao on drums • Jon Gagan and Andrew Ford on bass

Nathan Dunton on backing vocalas • Karina Wilson on fiddle

Kipp Bentley on guitar and vocals

I played piano and some other doodads

We are also up for Country Album of the Year!I