I have always been influenced by many voices; different languages, cultures and genres of music all speak to me. Even though my first three cds are about very different places, they are also about anywhere, about finding a home in your heart.

There has been an odd collection of voices in my head inspiring the songs. Imagine Billie Holliday, Kate Wolf, Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Andrés Segovia, Jimmy Hendrix, James Taylor, Buddy Hollie, Mississippi John Hurt, Led Zeppelin, Judy Collins, Carlos Santana, Van Morrison, Linda Ronstadt, Tom Waite, Carrie Newcomer, Neil Young and many, many others in a room together. Yet it is not a room, but the remote high country of the Colorado Rockies, “where the air is thin, where the mountains sigh and the rivers begin…” This is where a diverse group of people finds community and where my songs find me. With the backdrop of the “mystical sound of silence on high” and the undeveloped ope...