I played with a bunch of bands in the Twentieth Century. My favorite was Bleach House, which I put together with Steve Shiltz (main guitarist), Dave Marchese (bass) and Chris Krippas (drums), and myself (songwriter, vocalist, and second guitarist), around the turn of the century in New York.  Bleach House (we were named after a laundromat in Brooklyn, NY, not a smilar-sounding B'more band) gigged a lot around lower Manhattan, and, at a couple points, went into a studio to lay down some tracks. But they were never given a real mix as I having some vocal problems at the time and hoped do redo those tracks, but in the meantime the band broke up.  .

Due to the aforementioned vocal problems, and a painful condition in my elbow called 'radial tunnel syndrome' that made it difficult to play guitar, I stopped performing music in public for a long time. But, something was triggered after I moved to Baltimore and after a 15 year gap, I was, gigging again with an outfit called the Fake Furriers. It was just for fun, I thought. But I experienced a lot of loss, and it inspired a bunch of songs and it remined me of music's ability to transcend  the depths of human experience,  and what it had meant to me at one point of my life. When that band broke up, I decided to continue myself and use the current home studio revolution to record my recent work songs. During the lockdown, I learned to play several types of ukuleles (never realized there were several types before, bass was the biggest surprise) and began exploring what it would be like to do most or all of the tracks myself. Rocco and Foster (Everywhere Sweet in Baltimore is Somewhere You Lived or Died) is an example.  I did everything (except for Joachim Alfheim, drums and Charles Emmett Freeman, mixing). At the same time I found some old unmixed tracks (of songs that I had written) by former bandmates in Bleach House, and started working on those as well.  Adding my own tracks and mixing . Out There is an example.