We’re about forty minutes out of Raleigh, NC now. Alison and the girls are staying in Durham with Alison’s folks this week, and they’re going to meet us at the venue when nap time is over and I can’t wait. It’s been too long.
Thanks to everybody who came out to the Jammin’ Java […]

That’s my question to you today, folks. I mean, how can you not love this place? I played a concert yesterday afternoon at Wartburg Theological Seminary, facing the back side of a giant Martin Luther. That was a first.
It was a beautiful day to play songs outside, and we followed […]

Ok, so I’m out on this tour with three other singer-songwriters, Derek, Sandra and Alli Rogers. Everybody’s selling cd’s and they’ve all got great professional posters and price thingies. I’ve got two cardboard boxes full of cd’s and a cool, fuzzy table cloth that I found somewhere, but that’s it.
SO… I’m asking […]

I’m sitting here in Andrew Peterson’s eternally borrowed 15-passenger van with a pretty great crew of friends. Paul’s driving, Cason’s riding shotgun and reading a book about The Band. We’re listening to the Arcade Fire’s new record, Neon Bible, which is easily one of the best records I’ve heard in the past few […]

I’m not sure which is more stressful, packing instruments and gear for a tour and hoping you don’t forget anything important, or packing toys and clothes for a family trip and hoping you don’t forget anything. I’m doing both today, though, so I’ll let you know.
I just left rehearsal for Derek’s tour. It’s […]

You may have noticed it’s been a bit sparse around here lately. Sorry about that.
I pulled yet another all-nighter yesterday and finished editing and preparing the tracks for the new Caedmon’s Call record at 10 am today. I think I played the last note, a guitar solo on the song “Sacred”, at about […]

We got almost done with vocals by Wednesday, but we still had a few things left over so I heaved a veritable ton of equipment onto a series of very small airplanes to get it here in Minnesota. I set it up in the dressing room of tonight’s venue. (See Figure 1)

Fig. 1
After […]

Yes, folks, you read it here first. I’m pulling an all-nighter working on Pro Tools files for some last-minute recording to take place at our show later today in Minneapolis. If I were to sleep now I’d have to get up in three hours and I still have a ton of work to […]

We officially have a title and release date for the new Caedmon’s Call record.
Overdressed will be out August 28, 2007.
Oh yeah.

If you’re in Nashville tomorrow night, whatever you’re doing won’t be as cool as what you could be doing if you were watching this show. I’m playing guitar for Billy and Matthew, Cason and Chris Weigel are playing for both as well. The drummers are swapping out, Andy Hubbard with Matthew and Paul […]