Hello, everyone! Fleeing Hurricane Rita If, last Wednesday night, September 21st, you saw on TV thousands of cars, brake lights glaring, inching through the darkness along Interstate 10, then you may have seen me. I was one of those exhausted, anxious, people trying desperately—and unsuccessfully—to get out of the city ahead of Hurricane Rita, looking [...]

New Gymshoes music released today! Go to the Download page and check it out. The newsletter with the links went out on the 12th, so people who have subscribed to the newsletter got a preview. Also, The Gym community had preview access to it. As you may have guessed from the title, the new music [...]

Hello, everyone! Rainy Day Music We’ve had a lot of rainy days this summer which has inspired a couple of new pieces of music. Or one new piece. Your choice. The piece is divided into two sections, each the length of full song. You can download both pieces (“Lowering Clouds”, 5:07 min., 9.37 meg. and [...]

This Labor Day weekend has provided an excellent opportunity to dive into the Katrina relief effort. I know a lot of local folks read this blog since I’m linked from H-town. This may well be the greatest natural disaster in America in our lifetime. It’s happened right next door to us. There are 223,000 refugees [...]

This afternoon I had a typical home recording experience, complete with too many dogs, too many cords and too much laughter (which is where this story ends).

The Astrodome—which locals have often lamented is languishing unused—will be put to the best use of its long lifetime. It will be “home” for the refugees from the New Orleans Superdome which is storm-damaged and threatened with rising water.