James Gadson with Bill Withers. This feel is so beautiful! And I love the live fade out ending.

Since seeing Prince live at Madison Square Garden on January 18th, I have been very interested in the roots of stage shows. Prince’s stage show was spectacular – with no one minute overlooked. Choreography, crowd interaction, lights, costumes, and a band and a set list that is perfectly crafted and rehearsed. It dawned on me…

Bootsy Collins and Jabo Starks explain the James Brown “One”…

Recently recorded a 6 song EP with the Jamie McLean Band at Trout Recording with Bryce Goggin. Great place. Great Sounds. Used mostly my old ludwigs. Everything was recorded to tape which is unfortunately rare these days. And now recently we just finished mixing with John Agnello, who has made some really great records. Can’t…

One of my all time favorite musicians:

Lucy’s record came out this past Tuesday which I’m excited about. Lucy’s songs and singing are great and it was produced by Stewart Lerman. Guest musicians besides myself include The Roches, Louden Wainwright, Stewart Lerman, The Indigo Girls, Steuert Smith from The Eagles, and Ira Glass from NPR’s This American Life.

I just found this great video of a drum solo by Joey Baron. One of my heroes.

Looking forward to playing with some new faces this week…Ms. Courtney Jaye a great Nashville singer songwriter, Aaron Lee Tasjan a great singer songwriter and guitar player, Rich Hinman a great lapsteel and guitar player, Ben Mars my incredible bass buddy, and Brandon Findlay a great singer songwriter from the UK.