Bassist, producer, music supervisor, and platinum-selling songwriter who has recorded and/or performed with a most impressive list of top name artists ranging from Dave Matthews to Ben Folds to Robert Plant, Maren Morris, Tom Jones, the Indigo Girls, and many (many) more. The night of this interview he was playing with Emmylou Harris, who he'd performed with one night earlier in a different city. His performances and original music have been heard on various film and television projects for clients including the ABC and USA networks, Burger King, and General Motors, among others.
"Like the best musicians I know, it doesn't matter what they're doing, it doesn't matter whether they're being paid or how much they're being paid, they show up and they just bring everything, and give all, all the time."
"Sometimes you get beat up by traveling, obviously. You can't do anything about that. I do feel it's really important not to wake up the musician and go to bed the musician. Self-identifying like that, I did it for a number of years and it totally burned me out."
"All that time outdoors stimulates creative thinking, just in the most general way it does almost all the time make me very happily engaged when I'm performing."
"We did... a song where Robert (Plant) didn't sing and he just stood next to me playing harmonica the whole time ... And I got to, in that moment, realize 'I don't know that I belong here with these people, but I am going to make the absolute most of this moment.'"
"East Village Rent Party"
"Bed-Stuy Beatdown"