Blue Sky Riders

Kenny, Gary and I just got back from a meeting in L.A. about starting our own record company. We are singer/songwriters and we know how to do that — but starting a record label? Holy smoke. In this do-it-yourself world, it’s not enough to just know how to sing and write, one must know how to promote, market and distribute the work as well. (more…)

This past weekend I went back to my hometown and was the Grand Marshall of the Daffodil Parade. I am one of two people born in Meriden, Connecticut to go on to success in the music business. There may have been some guy in 1920 who lubed up John Phillip Sousa’s trombones but for all intents and purposes his name and fame have been lost in the swirling eddies of time. (Brad Devlin 1886-1946) (more…)

Honestly, the last thing I expected for this CD was “on time and on budget,” (whatever that means?) But here we are, and OK, GnG, I’ll admit it… I’m a bit in shock. I have to say, though, the challenges of recording in multiple cities with completely separate recording systems and engineers is, even as I write this, still daunting. But I want to believe we’re actually almost very nearly ever-so-close-to-being done, so dammit, we are… that is, IF we find all the missing elements we’ve recorded over these past 9 months. Bizarrely, certain “inconsequential” things seem now to be somehow missing from the compiled “masters,” scattered among 6 different recording studios between Nashville and Santa Barbara/Ojai! (more…)

A lot of people ask me why I am taking the risky road of starting a band instead of cruising comfortably down my well-established superhighway of songwriting success. (Seriously, the Songwriting Superhighway of Success is an actual freeway that links Nashville and Branson). They visualize me, sitting in my pajamas, smoking expensive cigars and sending minions to the mailbox to collect huge checks. Sure, the 90s were nice, but it’s a new world out there. Must I explain? If I am to get to 800 words I apparently must. (more…)