I come from a long line of carpenters: My grandpa, my dad, Jesus… My brother has it, too, I think. They can, and do, make beautiful things out of shapeless pieces of other things. They look at a room and think “I wonder what that wall would look like if I […]

My family is asleep and I think we’re ready. I’m off the road now, the bags are packed, directions on what to feed Ella are printed out and magnetized to the fridge. We’re ready to have another baby.
We went to the doctor today and he said everything was going well. We have […]

As the airport security lady snarled at me and stole my toothpaste, I thought again about our government’s current airport security charade.
Notwithstanding the obvious ridiculousness of the screening process to get to the gates (you know, scan the bags but not the people, so you can put stuff in your pockets but not in your […]

I’m sitting in a hotel in Houston. The bus has left for Dallas with the rest of the gang. I’ve been on the tour for two days and it was so hard to leave! Getting to spend my days with some of my best friends, playing music and seeing the country. […]

First off, I would like to publicly thank my corporate sponsor, the Vicks Corporation, (and primarily their products NyQuil and DayQuil) for making my days on this tour possible. And by that I mean that I’ve been sick as a dog and primarily existing solely on the afore-mentioned digestibles.
I’ve been out on the tour […]

I’m over at Paul’s studio today, engineering a project Jeremy Casella is producing. Mark Polack is playing bass and Garett Buell is playing drums. I’m just setting up mics and turning knobs. For giggles we’ve got a 58 behind the drums going through a Jekyll and Hyde distortion pedal. Pretty rad.
Yesterday […]

People often come up to me and say, “what can you possibly have against Ben Franklin?” And I tell them, just as I tell you now, it’s because he won’t let me sleep.
My first question is a tangent, let’s get that out of the way. When ol’ Ben tied a key to a […]

Here are some shots from today’s rehearsal for Andrew Peterson’s Christmas tour. New Nashvillian Hitoshi Yamaguchi took most of these, since, you know, I was playing guitar.
And here is, um, me playing guitar… with the pronautilus Gabe Scott

The exterpable Andrew Peterson

The ubflorious Ben Shive

The pontabular Derek and Sandra Webb (McCracken)

The diswailishlable Gabe Scott […]

Well, this is pretty rad. Christianity Today just published their list of Top 12 albums of the year, and my album The Morning is on it. Number 11. Not too shabby. What’s even cooler is that a few of my friends, Derek Webb and Bebo Norman, also made it on the […]

Apparently, I’m making up for a low-blog week…
Here’s a video of some of last week’s highlights with Caedmon’s in preproduction. I’m new to iMovie, so forgive the editing. Also, I felt bad about the fake clip I posted last week (even though I still think it was funny…) so I put a little […]