Americana Heartland Rock songwriter | Nashville | Old Piano out now | Two #1 singles on Amazon Music | Springsteen / Billy Joel / Petty lineage šŸŽµ

Nashville, TN
Joined April 2009
Today we release the most ambitious song I’ve ever recorded — a tribute to Princess Diana, cut LIVE with a 30-piece orchestra on the scoring stage at Skywalker Sound. No AI. No loops. No shortcuts. Just human hands, real strings, and a story that’s waited almost 30 years to be told. This song sounds the way it does because of three extraordinary artists: šŸ™ @[Noah Luna handle] — producer, music director, and the maestro who conducted 30 musicians into something transcendent šŸ™ Jim Scott — 7x Grammy winner who mixed this on his legendary Neve 8048, the same way he made records with Tom Petty and Wilco šŸ™ Pete Lyman — Grammy-winning mastering engineer who gave it that final shine in Nashville Thank you for believing in a song about a princess, written at an old piano. šŸ‘‘
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New single out now šŸŽ† "Hotter Than the 4th" Written in 1989. Found on cassette 35 years later. Re-recorded with my Nashville band just in time for America's 250th. Save it on Spotify if you dig it — that's what feeds the algorithm. – at Nashville, TN
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Rip Gerber retweeted
ā€œHotel Californiaā€ solo on a Bassoon 😳 was not on my bingo card but here we are and I'm digging it! 😃
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I didn’t expect this song to hit #1. But it did. #1 Best Seller – Country. #1 Hot New Release – Country. On Amazon. This week. When Mads Tolling added his violin part, the whole track shifted. It felt haunting. Raw. Like the song finally said what it needed to say. Y Knot? And you streamed it. You made it real. If you haven’t heard it yet— now’s the time. Link in bio. Y Knot? Let’s keep this burning manšŸ”„ burning. – at Nashville, TN
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It’s here! Y Knot is officially out now on all streaming platforms. This one’s personal—a dusty, heart-sick anthem born from playa nights, bad decisions, and the wild beauty of Burning Man. All in the award-winning art car built by my dear friend (guess who). If you’ve ever said ā€œwhy not?ā€ when you knew better… If you’ve ever chased closure and ended up with chaos... This song is for you. šŸŽ§ Stream it now—especially on Spotify. Add it to your heartbreak playlists. Blast it from your (art) car. Let it ride. Let’s see how far this one can go. Hit the link in bio, and turn it up loud. Y Knot? #YKnot #NowStreaming #SpotifyFirst #RipGerber #NewMusicRelease #BurningManAnthem – at Nashville, TN
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I didn’t plan to write this song. But last September, during the height of the U.S. election cycle, I found myself overwhelmed by one repeating thought: ā€œWhat if that were my child in the DariĆ©n Gap?ā€ That lawless jungle stretch between Colombia and Panama has become a deadly path for migrants—many of them unaccompanied children—seeking hope at the U.S. border. What they often find instead is unimaginable suffering, and a system that repeatedly fails them. So I wrote ā€œHappy It’s Not Meā€ā€”a protest song against the broken immigration policies that leave these kids vulnerable to trafficking, abuse, and silence. And I couldn’t keep it to myself. Every single stream and purchase of this song supports Special Operations | Finding Kids, an incredible nonprofit organization that rescues missing and exploited children. #findingkids #immigration #usborder #savingkids #newmusic šŸŽ§ Listen here: ffm.to/hinm – at Nashville, TN
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šŸŽµ ā€œHappy It’s Not Meā€ drops Sept 26 Every stream helps us speak for the kids who can’t. Every share spreads the truth. Let this one echo. ā–¶ļøSave it. Share it. šŸ“Link in bio. – at Nashville, TN
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My latest single is about to drop. "Happy It's Not Me" takes aim at society's failures that propagate the increasing number of missing and trafficked children in this country. Pre-save it here: ffm.to/hinm
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