The frontman for The Pine Box Boys, who just completed a tour of eleven shows in four states in fifteen days. He is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist for the band, which has released seven albums, starting with their debut release back in 2005. In the past they have also toured in Europe. He also has launched several side projects, some of which have recorded and released music as well. The Pine Box Boys have well over 28 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where their top five songs alone have a combined total of more than seven-and-a-half million streams.
“Some songs just kind of wound up stuck in a suitcase and forgotten about. And every once in a while, it’s kind of cool to knock the dust off them and play them again and see how you've changed.”
“A song that may have been relevant at one point, lost its relevance, can absolutely reclaim its relevance. Give it a shot. Let it breathe its own life.”
“My mom… used to sing me to sleep at night with old murder ballads!”
“There was kind of like the thought of, why don't we go ahead and do a children's album? Well, it didn't quite work out that way. You see, I put together a children's album, and I titled it Lester T. Raww's Graveside Quartet Sings Your Children to Sleep. And there's all sorts of demented teddy bears and zombies and all sorts of things that go across the record.”
“We had been talking for years about getting a project together. Our idea was sort of if Louis Prima and Keely Smith were combined with Gomez and Morticia Adams. Came up with the name just so I could start every show by saying, ‘Good evening folks, we're The Good Evening Folks’.”
“I am one of those guys, I hold my metaphors the way one might hold a bird – very lightly and happy to let them fly away when the time comes.”
“I do DJ a bit around town here in San Francisco and … it's all vinyl and when I originally started, the program was called Music for Ghosts.”
“About 2013 I had a had a dear friend get murdered and I wondered for a while after that, how is that going to change my approach?”
“I moved out to San Francisco in 1994; before that, was living in Arkansas. My wife was from Mississippi and the newspaper she'd been working at, they folded. The band I was playing in at the time broke up and (it) was like, ‘Well, nothing’s keeping us here’.”
“When you look at sort of the history of the ballads that came across from Ireland, from Scotland, from the British Isles, over here – and a lot of scholars have written about this – something gets dropped when the songs come over here.”
“There we are, Studio C, at Hyde Street Studios, the same place where Fogerty recorded the first four CCR albums, American Beauty was recorded there, Jello Biafra did a bunch of Dead Kennedys stuff there, in that same room.”
“Just a Crush”
“A Long Line of Werewolves”