At Home Away From Home is now available at End of an Ear and Waterloo Records in Austin. You can also find it on iTunes and Zune, and will hopefully be available on Amazon, eMusic, and a handful of others very soon.

Still working on reviews. Hopefully those'll come soon as well. Over and out for now.

After a couple months off, I am slowly getting back into the swing of things. I have made a handful of inquiries and hope to have some official reviews of the record in the coming weeks. Also, on February 5, 2011, I performed live for the first time in over ten years at a house concert/CD release party here in Austin.

(Photo by Alex Moore.)

I was terribly nervous, but the audience was fantastic and reminded me just how fun live shows can be. You can see more pictures from the show at Flickr.

My next task is to actually get the record into stores. *gulp* Wish me luck ...

Well, the record is done. However, the holidays have hit and release of the record has taken a backseat. I am hoping that January brings enough peace and quiet to sort through the details and get this thing released. In the meantime, I wish you all a safe and relaxing holiday.

The official release date for At Home Away From Home has been set for on or around December 12, 2010; more details soon. In the meantime, and for a limited time only, I am offering the record for free download at bandcamp. Please visit my bandcamp page very soon if you want to grab a free copy of it. Starting tomorrow, the downloads will cost a minimum of $5 for the whole album or $.50 per song.

However, I am far more excited about the actual CD, and I do hope that if you download the record now you will consider purchasing the CD when it becomes available.

Thanks for sticking with me, my friends! Now go forth and download; offer ends soon.

Lyrics for At Home Away From Home will not be included in the liner notes. Instead, you can find them here.

Mixing is complete. Eight songs are mastered and two are being mastered. Song order is under consideration and artwork is being assembled. A return to normal life is eagerly anticipated.

After a long, anxious summer, I am finally back to mixing. One song is mastered and ready to go, five songs are about ready to be mastered, and four songs are almost mixed. Well, there is one song that's being a real troublemaker, but I have faith that it'll eventually come around. As it stands right now, I'm hoping for a winter release. Wait, scratch that. I'm insisting on a winter release. There. Much better.

I recently asked Edward Burch and Mickey White to contribute some of their amazing talent to this record. They said yes. The cliche about being "on cloud nine" keeps coming to mind.

At Home Away From Home is almost complete. One song is mixed and mastered, 6 songs are recorded and are being mixed, and the final 3 are in the queue for live drums but are otherwise arranged and ready to go. Momentum is my new best friend. By the way, did you know that you can find more current/regular updates on Facebook? Well, now you do!

Work on the record is picking up steam: currently weeding through 24 songs to figure out which ones will make the cut; officially welcomed Gary DeVries as drummer; made a preliminary Mastering agreement with Alex Moore in Buda. Life is good.