Down on Jane -Songs, Stories, and Making Music in your 40's

Trailer Trash, Beaver Stadium, and My Alma Mater

I left the house first thing, alone. It was raining, the kind of low, gray, sticky rain that western Pennsylvania does better

A conversation with Greg Joseph and Kevin McDonald from The Clarks and Grapevine Let me be upfront about something before this blog

The Night I First Heard Adam Evil and the Outside Royalty Some nights stick with you, etched into memory, not because of

When I was twenty-two, success as a musician had a very specific picture: dudes crammed in a van, a tour, and hopefully

There’s a special kind of disappointment that only comes from thinking a gig is going to be something, and realizing upon arrival

There’s something electric that happens when two bands who have no business being on the same bill share the stage and make

Tom and I lived in a one-bedroom apartment on Beaver Avenue with another guy named Anthony during our time at Penn State.

Before opening for My Morning Jacket, the Southside, Soundscape Studios, and long before the name Down on Jane ever existed, there was

Every time I look up from my computer, I see a My Morning Jacket tour poster from 2003. September 22, 2003, to

That Checkerboard Floor Back in the late ’90s and early 2000s, if you were in a Pittsburgh rock band with original songs