Welcome back to the weekly blog! Some of you fine folks have asked me about my tunings at the shows and online. I dug through the guitar cases and studio files this morning and (drum roll, please), here they are all in one place. I’m pulling back the guitar case curtains and giving you every tuning I have ever recorded … Read More

“What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing.” —Jamie Foxx Well, it was a long time coming, but it’s here. CDs will be off the shelves in Best Buy this summer, and iTunes plans to stop selling downloads sometime next year. (Downloads fell another 27 percent in sales in the first half of this year alone.) Streaming runs the record … Read More

I lost my way. I’d thought by my labors to stand outside that true bend of gravity which is the world’s pain. The beauty of the stonework is simply a reflection of the purity of the mason’s intention.” —Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason When I was 12 years old, my parents split, and I moved with my mom and sister from … Read More

As a kid growing up in Kansas, I ate roughly one million gazillion Burger King Whoppers. Sometimes Double Whoppers. Until I became vegetarian as a freshman in college, I ate a ton of antibiotic-filled animals and cleared acres of rainforest with my insane eating habits. My relationship with food was wonderfully simple—eat till I can barely move, drink enough coffee … Read More