It’s true. Some of these songs are 20+ years old.

Believe it or not, some of these songs on my upcoming release, “Dire Circumstances” were written over 20 years ago but completely overhauled.

They were completely overhauled because I never felt like any previous versions were up to par with the quality of music I’m releasing today.

It wasn’t by choice.

To say that I never really had a supportive family, was an understatement. As the people close to me know, I always says, “it was a fight to be me.”

The reason I say that is because I wanted to do music, full time, at a very young age but was never given the support I needed. And so, I just suppressed it all (because I had no other choice, from a survival standpoint).

Even despite my family being “musically inclined” it was always like, “that’s great you want to do music, but you need a job.” So that’s what I did. I got day job after day job without much, if anything to show for it.

As detailed in the song “Full Circle” on the upcoming album, the lyrics are all about coming back to this passion and love for playing music. That “one day will be mine, the feelings don’t lie, like an antenna tuned to unwind.”

Meaning, the true joy I get, is from playing music, and I can’t lie to myself (or anyone else) anymore.

I was raised by wolves.

As my partner, Kelly, of many years always says, “You were raised by wolves.” And I think you, the listener, will get a sense of that angst and passion detailed in many of the songs you hear in a lot of the latest music.

Until then, you can get a sense of how I grew up just from listening to the lyrics of a lot of my songs, that talk about my experiences growing up — with lyrics like, “estranged from family they begged me to be who they want me to be, I couldn’t lie anymore,” etc.

Times (and places) were different.

To say the least, growing up in a family that everyone just got a day job and worked whatever they took to pay the bills, had given me a lot of teenage angst and resentment. Mainly because both of my parents were absolutely miserable. And, I just didn’t want to be around that.

Also, growing up and going to school in rural New Jersey, where I met absolutely no one who did music for a living (beside a lot of local, singer-songwriters who worked during the day and played shows at night), didn’t help. So it made sense, that I eventually packed up everything in my car and headed out west, to LA, to try and “make it.” This after I booked, played, promoted, and marketed hundreds of solo-acoustic shows, all by myself, all over the east coast.

Now living in Portland, Oregon (because LA was never my thing), I’m finally in a good place to share all of these new songs with you. And, I can’t tell you how gratifying is to get the songs to where I feel they need to be.

I hope you enjoy these songs as much as I do! If any of them resonate with you, I’d be incredibly grateful if you saved them or shared them with someone who might connect with them too.

At the moment, I’m handling everything myself — writing, recording, artwork, promotion, the website, all of it — so any help getting the music into the right ears genuinely means a lot.