Tear Into the Future

My music (on reflection as much as by design) is about having to act, having to shift, having to move. It is about the ways one is completely changed (but not corrupted) by circumstances greater than oneself when he or she is either pushed or pulled back out into the ether of In-Between, where there are no woolly variables of "success" or "failure" anymore, where one’s entire scope is condensed into what is "now." While I have been fortunate enough to have (mostly) served as either the principal or consulting architect of my own disasters, I am nevertheless no stranger to that boat (bus, train, car, or body alone) known to anyone who has, in any degree, had to take action according to circumstances one would call serious. Mine are NOT the soaring anthems of vacations, road-trips (per se), designer treks, boutique adventures, or theme-park flights of fancy made dumbly possible by disposable income and the insufferable luxury of unhurried planning. My songs serve as the potential “responses” of intelligent, hard-working, honest, (and kind, if you want) individuals who are rich in conscience, and who, though they manage to slip through the cracks in a facile, self-promoting age where slipping through cracks is galling, ignominious, anything but heroic, still find themselves inviolably possessed of a home-crop of hope (though they might lose sight of it at times) and who can even still laugh at themselves (imagine that!). These are songs to be heard and sung as we all go along on our "one-way trips."