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The Sky May Very Well Be Falling
But that’s why someone invented the umbrella. Last month the quirky rock group Cake set a somewhat dubious record when they found themselves at the pinnacle of the Billboard 200 chart—they sold the fewest number of units for any act ever to do so. As expected, a wide variety of people took to their preferred [...]
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College Street and Commerce Street
I spend a lot of time piloting a large 15 passenger van around the country for my job. It’s anonymously white, and my friends enjoy making fun of me for it. “It’s a child molester van,” they say. This kind of comment never fails in putting me on the defensive. “It couldn’t be a child [...]
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Scheduled Spontaneity
A few weeks ago I had the enormous pleasure of sharing the stage with two fantastic songwriters inside of a little bar in the downtown area of Bandera. This hill country hamlet in Texas is not much more than tiny speck on the map, as far as population goes. If map locations were demarcated by [...]
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The One Where I Start Sounding Like An Old Man
Technology is, quite frankly, one of the only reasons why I’m able to survive in this business as my own manager, record label, and agent. I can book shows with the whisk of an email, handle press requests with a simple reply via text message, and solve all sorts of dilemmas on the road thanks [...]
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