Music, The Stage, And Why I Left

From Frontman To Solitarian

The State Theater, Northern California. 2013

The rising sun beamed through the valley below, setting the Alpine peaks in dramatic contrast to the black shadows that stretched out from behind their sunlit faces.

I sat in the centuries-old living room—built of hand-hewn beams on the side of a much older mountain—eating my slice of dark rye with a slab of cured bacon, washing it down…