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New for 2023- Songwriter Sundays with Jim Colbert

I'll close out the year with the return of my popular Beginning Songwriting Workshop and hosting a Songwriter's Showcase as part of First Night State College. But I'm tired of banging my head against a wall trying to get shows…

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Post-pandemic airplay! 

Came home tonight to find out my song "Boattail Riviera" will be played on Jon Stein's Singer Songwriter Showcase Sunday evening. The show will air Sunday 9pm (est) on Wtbq.com 

The show also air Thursday 7/8 and Friday 7/9 at…

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End of summer 2018

I'm embarrassed to see I haven't had an entry here in literally years! It's not like nothing has happened... wrapping up summer with doing a bit of fall booking - will be heading to Pittsburgh to open for Friction Farm…

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Short Run live CD now available

I have a newly remastered, very limited quantity of my 5 Live EP available again. The disc consists of (mostly) live soundboard recordings. While intended primarily for booking and presenters to get a feel of what I do live, I'm…

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Poetry collection now available!

I'm proud to say my first collection of poetry is now available for sale! Defiantly Blue Sky is full color throughout, and includes photographs by my friend Laura Waldhier as well as some of my own. 64 pages, I have…

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Rose Garden Coffeehouse Songwriting Competition

I'm happy to say I'm a finalist in the 2010 Rose Garden Coffeehouse songwriting competition. Given some of my favorite songwriters have been here, too -- Jud Caswell, Joe Crookston, Jenny Goodspeed, Dave Potts -- I can say with all…

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Recording, blogs, comments

I've decided updates on the recording project will be better served in the Blog section here, rather than news. So look for future updates there. I also turned on "allow comments" there, so please feel free to share your thoughts…

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New guitar

Finally made it down to Pittsburgh to Acoustic Music works, with the intention of checking out short scale Bourgeois guitars. After about 3 hours of trying everything from Breedloves to Collings, picked up a used 2005 Sullivan SMSA-T that I…

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Bellefonte Unplugged Wrap up

We wrapped up our 2009 edition of Bellefonte Unplugged with an intimate workshop with Hannah Bingman and myself, and friends Terry and Kerri.. hmm, if we could have rustled up a Jerry or a Mary, we might could have turned…

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