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Baby States has been recording. Here is a taste of the album to come. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] We’ll be be playing this Thursday, Feb. 16, 8pm, at Rockwood Music Hall, in the Lower East Side.  And … Continue reading →

On the road with Cuddle Magic. Driving through Tennessee. Listening to beautiful and clever new records by Anais Mitchell, Joy Kills Sorrow, and Noam Weinstein … and a great CD full of mp3s of Somali pop music given to me … Continue reading →

Ben Davis and I do some serious self-examination as we discuss Cuddle Magic. Check out this video interview with the free radicals.

Cuddle Magic is camped out at Old Soul Studios with toy piano master Phyllis Chen, stylin’ engineer Kenny Siegal, and two (2) Akitas. We’re putting down lots of new music (by Phyllis, Ben Davis, Kristin Slipp, Wes Matthews, and me) … Continue reading →

i was so happy to play music this past friday night: first a duo set with lefteris kordis, and then a jaunt through the compositions of gill aharon. there was beer. there was wine. the lily pad on a friday … Continue reading →

Cuddle Magic is about to get busier than it’s ever been. We’ll be embarking on a very extensive tour this fall – dates are below. We’ll be releasing our third album, “Info Nympho”, engineered and mixed by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, … Continue reading →

Baby States, in case you do not know, is Ben Davis, Jeremy Gustin, and myself doing crazy/funny/beautiful things with old-time Appalachian fiddle tunes and murder ballads. Baby States is West African guitar, Uncle Dave Macon, and Nirvana … together … … Continue reading →

Here is a video of a monumental backstage jam at the Newport Folk Festival. The Low Anthem, The Decemberists, Gillian Welch, Pokey LaFarge, and the David Wax Museum are among the participants; John McCauley leads the assembled in a furry … Continue reading →

You can tune into NPR at noon and hear me with the David Wax Museum live at the Newport Folk Festival. or go to their website

Say, for instance, you’re a creatively minded, independent band. You have no record label, no management, no publicity firm, no radio play, and not a single song on “Friday Night Lights”. But, you DO have, an enthusiastic fan-base, in love … Continue reading →