Today I'm releasing Lake Louise, my very first Patron-Exclusive track on my new Patreon page!

This song is a co-write with my talented friend Luke Jackson, and I've been having a blast singing it at shows lately. ...

Hi guys, just wanted to give a quick update for friends and family around the globe who have checked in to see how I'm faring in the wake of Harvey: I am safe, dry and completely fine. You are so sweet to ask. I love you.

I'm on tour in Michigan ...

Kablam! My Patreon page is just one week old and there are already 121 of us at the party! If you're not in yet, click here to join us: 

And just like that, I'm a world away from Austin. It's 60 degrees here and falling. I can't describe how strange it feels to experience cold. Amazing that we go on this ride every year, through the seasons, and every year I get so acclimated to the ...

SURPRISE! It's my birthday and to celebrate I'm releasing 3 new songs for free!

I'd love for you to hear them, you can download or stream at www....

I started hanging around in Austin in 2009, but I was mostly crashing with friends and subletting for the first year and a half or so. I didn't feel like I actually "lived" here until the May of 2011, when we moved into a two bedroom house in ...

Looking for something to listen to? Check out this playlist I made you on Spotify!

It's chock-full of my favorite songwriters, friends and musical heroes....

Today I cried at Dollywood. I was at an exhibit in which Dolly read an early letter she'd sent home to her parents. The first part I heard was that she cried the whole way to Nashville. Then she told them not to worry about sending her money, ...

Walked into the bank and there's an elderly woman bawling. A manager is explaining in a quiet, stern voice that he's on the verge of calling the police. He tells her she needs to resolve the problem-

"I tried to resolve the problem!" She wails. ...

"Allow yourself to be filled up by the good things. Focus on the positive. If you are going to make it, you have to train your brain to be rewarded by what is positive and to not get sucked down into the muck of the negative, because there's a lot of ...

Wow. I was fortunate enough to attend Jimmy LaFave Songwriter Rendezvous at The Paramount in Austin last night and it was one of the most poignant, heartbreaking and loving experiences of my life.

First: if you aren't familiar with Jimmy's music,...

Sending out love to my mom.

Sending out love to your mom.

Sending out love to my friends who are moms.

Sending out love to my friends who want to be moms but aren't yet.

Sending out love to my friends who have no interest in ...

When I agreed to do a tour swap with Luke Jackson, we had met once and he seemed nice enough. Why not? Our managers set it up.

A few months later, we got together at a writing retreat and wrote a song that we ...

Yes, I want to live to see a female president.

I'd also like to live to see a day when there are 79 women and 21 men in the Senate.

While we're at it, I'd like to see 352 women in the House of Representatives. I'd like to think they'd be ...

Did someone say new guitar? Oh right, that was me.

This tiny beast was handmade for me by my brilliant friend Bayard. It's called a Bayard. It's the 171st guitar he's made. We've been talking for the ...

After my grandfather died, my grandmother found herself in Orland Park, IL - 1000 miles from the farm where she grew up in eastern Tennessee, with two young children and a brand new real estate business that she and her ...

After a full day of straight up tulip-mania, I said goodbye to my sister and left her at the train station. I took the tram back to the quiet neighborhood in Amsterdam where my friend's empty apartment waited for me. By accident, I got off an ...

There's no easy way to get from Lucerne, Switzerland to Limousin, France. 

The best route I’ve found clocks in at about 12 hours and requires one to ride in a car to the Lucerne central station, take a train to Basel, take a bus to the ...