Every record used to come with liner notes — the stories printed inside the sleeve. These are mine: the rig, the songs, and everything in between.
Encore Lineage
The names behind the tools: Capitol, Kirshner, Columbia, Asylum — why my recording app is full of borrowed record-business names, including the two rooms I tore down.
2026 · Updated Jul 30, 2026 · rev 3
The Song Player's Assistant
One performer, a whole band — a tour of the rig that turns a stool and a Strat into a full show.
July 2026 · Updated Jul 26, 2026 · rev 2
Guitar Lessons
Pocket money from guitar lessons, free rent as the building handyman, parents helping with college — and the Guild at the end of it.
The Seventies · Updated Jul 31, 2026 · rev 4
SoCal/Coastal Music Scene
Hoyt Axton and the Golden Bear, Cobblestone magazine, McCabe's, and the small rooms up and down the coast that shaped how I still play.
The Seventies · Updated Jul 30, 2026 · rev 4
How I Finally Made My Album
Forty years of songs in notebooks, and the technology that changed the math. The story of Milestones.
2026 · Updated Jul 29, 2026 · rev 6
The Wrecking Crew
The uncredited session players who built the 1960s — and why my studio's first stage carries their name.
2026 · Updated Jul 27, 2026 · rev 2Still in the drawer
- The Songs Themselves — Where each of the eleven Milestones songs came from — liner notes in the truest sense.
- The Early Days — Horse Whispering Music, GarageBand.com, and a folk chart run in 2006 — the catalog before Milestones.
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