Album Release: I Wanna Work For You!

Today, my third full-length album goes on sale in digital format. This is an album about the search for work, for purpose, for justice, for love, for anything real in an artificial world. The 10 original tunes on I Wanna Work for You ruminate on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and naked grabs for power, misguided love affairs and tired marriages, stratospheric self-actualization and gender-bending blues.

Oakland native Sam Bevan was my associate producer, and boy did he evolve my sound! Gary Mankin is my magic musical mensch -- er, engineer of SEVEN (count 'em) years! Pianist Jonathan Alford, percussionist Carlos Caro, drummer and percussionist Colin Douglas, Cuban singer Felix Samuel, trombonist Mara Fox and trumpeter Steffen Kuehn rounded out the band. For more detail on the talented band, read their bios and see their lovely photos here!

Amazingly, there were 90 backers on Kickstarter who made this project possible. Raj Kumar, thank you for your help videotaping and efforts to make the Kickstarter campaign a success! Robert Remy, meeting you at my three-night run at Jazz at Pearls three years ago turned out quite fortuitous! Shout out to photographer Melissa Agocs, too.

There are many other people to thank, of course, including my family and kids, who always say my songs rock.

Now what are you waiting for? Listen to I Wanna Work For You!

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