Thinking back on the Bus record after all this time, I landed on two separate but related topics: 1) making the record and everything that was going on during that season; and 2) What those songs sound like in 2026. I tackled the first topic in my last post. Today I’m going to attempt the…
One thing I’ve noticed after being a musician for so long is how time starts folding over on itself. When I play a song live, I’m simultaneously in the moment while mentally jumping back to the person I was when we recorded it. As the Bus album turned 30 this summer, I thought it might…
A theme that came up in my Why Pilgrim’s Bookshelf? post that will probably resurface quite a bit is a looking back at how things used to be. Yes, there’s some nostalgia mixed in there, but a lot of it is a mourning of how we’ve traded humanity for ease. As a musician, I have…
In honor of completing one more lap around the sun, I’m bringing back one of my favorite birthday traditions. (I’m also soft launching a new blog over the next couple of weeks. This will eventually be the first entry. Stay tuned!) A LOT has changed since the last time I did one of these. Third…
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in my dressing room in Kent, Washington when it hit me. I was reading This Isn’t Happening; Radiohead’s Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century. It’s a fascinating book that captures the mood of the world when Radiohead released Kid A. As an aging rocker myself,…