Working on this album was like every day I spent as a boy in the forested wilderness near the old farmhouse that’s way out in the middle-of-nowhere, called Mabel Lake, BC.   I was able to get back to being wild; back to the river rapids; the canyons reaching to outer space; the waterfalls coming down as wild and hard as an ocean falling off the edge of a flat earth (that one’s for you conspiracy theorists); back to the wild weather outdoors; the wild raspberries, gooseberries, moose, big horn...

I love my wife & five daughters. I also wish I were able to perform and record more. Due to all my family commitments, I often have 1/10 the amount of creative time which I want. Despite that, I’m deeply   grateful for the love we share as a family; a love mixed with fighting and yelling at times; apologies and reconciliation always; diapers; kissing the kids every morning & spanking them every evening (that last one’s a joke for the boomers); yearning to be single & free when shit hits the...

Listening to a podcast recently from my fav new show called “ Makers and Mystics ”, I came to realize that I often look at my life as a...