Hey, check out the new FREE downloadable track on this page. It's a solo demo recording of a new song I'm calling "It All Falls Down". Let me know what you think of it.

Don't forget to download the cover of Beck's "Lost Cause" that I recorded with the band a short while ago while you're here. It's a great song, and I feel like we did a pretty bang-up job with it.

The band and I decided to make available to you a few tracks we recorded live during recent rehearsals. We'll release these gradually over the course of the next few weeks leading up to a big event we're planning for October. You can find the first of these (a cover of Beck's "Lost Cause") on this page. Look for more songs coming soon.

As you may remember, we had the rare opportunity to play a tribute show (and benefit for cancer research) in honor of the late, great Jeff Buckley back in June. Sponsored by the official Jeff Buckley website, which provided free Jeff Buckley guitar picks to all attendees, and also by the Record Bar, which hosted the event, the night was dubbed "Grace in the Heartland".

To those of you who were there, a sincere "thank you" is owed. We hope and trust that you had as good a time listening to Buckley's songs as we had performing them for you. The band worked really hard to do Buckley and his fans proud and, by all accounts that have reached us, it seems that we may have done alright on that count.

It was especially great to meet, and have the opportunity to share the stage with, Miller Howell and Joe Garvey and their respective bandmates. We hope to find the chance to play future shows with them, perhaps in the fall.

The MySpace site dedicated to the promotion of the Kansas City Buckley Tribute recently posted the following review of the evening:

"The first ever 'Grace In The Heartland' tribute to Jeff Buckley in Kansas City was a gratifying evening for fans of the iconic star's musical legacy. The creative yet true-to-form adaptations of Jeff Buckley original and favorite cover tunes performed by local-area musicians left the Record Bar crowd well satisfied.

Miller Howell kicked off the Tribute with a few tightly-wound verses of 'Hallelujah'. Howell's intense vocals and powerful stage presence set the tone for a remarkable set. His original 'Not My Time', written specifically as a tribute to Buckley, was the only exception made on the night for a song never performed by Jeff and was well worth breaking the rules for. Howell left the stage with a great deal of intensity after a rousing performance of 'Eternal Life'.

Following an intense day of recording for her new album, Anna Cole took stage with performance of 'Calling You' and 'Be My Husband' and left no doubt that her powerful vocal range is very adaptable to Buckley's anthology.

Joe Garvey earned his tribute stripes performing in the June, 2007 homage to Jeff Buckley at the Hard Rock Café in Paris, France. His repertoire includes enough Buckley compositions for a full evening and a last-minute line-up change allowed him to complete a seven-song set. He opened with 'Lost Highway' in a format similar to Buckley's 1995 Bearville Studios release. He was accompanied on 'Last Goodbye' and 'So Real' by his brother Tom Garvey on guitar and bassist Ryan Bob of Overland Park. The threesome performance inspired a retro-glimpse of Jeff's early performances sans percussion. Garvey's inflections, voice control and emotion were uncannily true to form in 'Lover You Should Have Come Over.' His set closed with an extended and somewhat original version of 'Hallelujah', following the lyrics of Buckley's Chicago performance and adding verses from Leonard Cohen's original version that Buckley had omitted. The bar was infused with a reverence typical of 'Hallelujah' performed to Buckley's interpretation.

Abigail Murphy and her entourage of talented musicians brought a feeling of fullness, satisfaction and conclusion to the evening. Working out some solicitousness through a soft 'Je n'en connais pas la fin' duo with Pat Ables, the full band rocked through 'New Year's Prayer' with Ables providing a captivating flute introduction preceding a powerfully smooth transition to knock-down percussion and guitar and Murphy's hauntingly close vocal connection with the spirit of the song. Stroking the sub-consciousness, a surreal mélange of sound leading into 'Dream Brother' steered the crowd on a power wave of oceanic sound and transparency filled with Buckley memories and fate. Following a performance of 'Forget Her', the tribute came to a vivifying conclusion with the band's energy packed rendition of 'Grace'. Performing with Murphy and Ables were Drew Sitt on bass, Mark Knickerbocker on guitar and Charlie Carter on drums.

Each artist expressed thanks to Jeff Buckley for inspiration as though he were still there among them. In fact, the sense of closeness the music created among the close-knit community of his fans left a feeling that Jeff himself may have been sitting at a table with friends and a beer and influencing the sound and emotion of the night. Perhaps he was.

It should be noted that the Record Bar has excellent acoustical quality and the sound crew is very skillful. The sound expertise is critical when musicians are changing setups throughout the night, and the Record Bar is certainly up to the task in hosting such an event. Now that it's clear that the event can be successfully pulled off in Kansas City, thoughts will gather for organization of an encore."