A late to arrive but very nice review just appeared--thank you, Tom Haugen at TAKE EFFECT. "The songs are introspective, mature and insightful, where Anders’ inimitable voice engages us from beginning to end."

In his nice review of NOW I'M A KITE in American Highways writer John Apice aligns me with Melanie, Nanci Griffith, Carole King, Judee Sill, and Martha Wainwright--that's some weighty company, I'm honored!

 

Yours truly has a 12-bar solo during the back half of this concert with the Zia Singers. In the front half we sing Mårten Jansson's Missa Popularis, which is gorgeous. 

We adopted Eddie in September. Here he is in the studio looking dignified while we work on the new album. Except the brown nose from digging in the yard isn't so dignified.

I've finished my lead vocals for the new album and we've started adding some backing vocals. Dana Cooper played an awesome show here then came over the next day to sing a harmony on “That's What You'd Say”.

Me and Tom Manche post-gig at the late great Radio Cafe pre-pandemic. Feels like a million years ago. I'm looking forward to this gig, hosted by Ron Whitmore. Tom and I will trade songs for 90 minutes.

Here are the cool feet of cool bassist Chazz Frichtel as he played some very cool bass on tracks for my new album.

This is not a mouse being held up by super drummer Waldo LaTowsky. It's one of the many strange percussion instruments he brought to the studio when I told him I wanted weird percussion on the new album.

I've just moved to this beautiful town filled with friendly creative people. I'm walking distance to cafes, a river walk, buildings that are several centuries old, art galleries, and much more. I can't wait to explore this magical place. 

Once…

I had so much fun teaching and performing at California Coast Music Camp in the beautiful Carmel HIghlands. I taught songwriting and vocal style. I performed songs from 13 WOMEN and tried out a couple of new ones. I'm not…

Been thinking lately about good ways to practice voice, guitar and piano as I get in recording mode for my next album. This blog is spot on, whether you sing or play an instrument. 

I moved to Bend over a year ago, but with the Omicron variant raging last winter and my father's passing last February it feels like I'm just getting started. I've been writing songs for a new album I'll record in…

I have gone through countless capos trying to find one that doesn't pull my strings out of tune. Two friends separately recommended D'Addario NS Tri-Action Capo and finally my search has ended. 
This is the one that works, no more…

I drove into Bend a year ago on Oct. 22, 2021, following Tom who drove a 26' truck with all our stuff. I was happily listening to KPOV, the very cool eclectic community radio station here. So it's fitting that…

I was listening to David Wilcox' incredible song "Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song" and it inspired me to create a new Spotify playlist. I filled it with one bummer song each from some of the greats: Joni, David Wilcox, Leonard…

There's much to do before the release of 13 Women, and since like most of you I'm still at home I'm sitting here doing it! Plus I've been playing all the songs to the dog we've been fostering, hoping that…

I've been posting recording progress on the 13 Women page instead of here: we've started mixing so the album is slowly taking shape.

     My next album has a concept, a title, an album cover, and thirteen songs about women from US history I've started to record. More details are here.

I had a wonderful couple of shows in Nashville and Berkeley in June. Thank you to J. Poet for my preview and picture in the East Bay Express before my show at the venerable Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, here's…

I'm still Loop de Looping AKA doing shows to promote Loop de Loop. Plus I've been writing songs for a new concept album and just recorded the first few guitar tracks. All of the songs are in the voices of…

I'm performing songs from Loop de Loop at the wonderful Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, my hometown. I played several shows at the old Freight & Salvage but this is my first performance at the newer larger venue. I've heard…

I don't know what it is about New Jersey, but three NJ artists cut a total of eleven of my songs over the summer: thank you J. Smit, Kristina Cordaro, and Gianna! Gianna's version of my song "Strange But True"…