THE DEL FI’S ‘CROWD PLEASER’ (2015) After touring and promoting my debut ‘Early Riser’ on Cowboy Junkies label I needed a break from the pressure of it. As much as I liked to not admit it, there are expectations and that builds the stress on your shoulders. I decided on pressure-less side projects in between […]
This compilation came about after the increasing attention I was getting overseas. We had an almost 2-month tour booked through Europe/UK for the Spring of 2019, I thought it would be cool to put something together, a taste from each album plus a couple of outtakes. It was released as a limited edition CD in […]
One day I got a call from Michael Timmins with a concept idea for the next album. Since there was still a lot of people that didn’t know of me, he thought it would be cool to show my two major musical sides with two different records but packaged under the same roof. ‘Nonsense’ would […]
Hey gang, Hope you are keeping well and safe during these crazy and sad times.Tomorrow (Fri June 5th) Bandcamp will again be waiving their revenue share of sales on music and merch, so it’s a good day to support artists that you dig. To coincide with this I will be adding the previously European-only compilation Too Broke To Die: […]
This album was recorded during a time of inner difficulty. I finally had signed a record contract after years of being turned down and putting out the albums myself. I was very deep in debt so it was great to finally have some support. What better person to work with than Michael Timmins of Cowboy […]
I felt the urge to record a live album, so that’s what we did, August 14th, 2013 at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. The Weather Station and Kate Rogers Band opened. I had met Tamara Lindeman (The Weather Station) through another singer Carleigh Aikins backstage at Mariposa Folk Festival. Both, along with Ivy Mairi would […]
Musically it was a great document of the band, The Situation (James McKie, Dan Mock, Kyle Sullivan) I at the height of our musically powers. I think the timing and sound really clicked with all of us and I wanted to get it down on tape before we moved into another direction. It was recorded […]
This mini album started as just a fun thing to do in Tim Bovaconti’s little home studio with him primarily on bass and Kyle Sullivan on drums. I had these songs on the side and really didn’t see a home for them on a major record. I thought it would be cool to do something […]
I remember writing most of the words on ‘Traveling Grey’ in coffee shops around where I was living. Some of the songs were written in flashes with both words & music but most often I had the lyrics written first from pages and pages in my notebooks. The record is about half acoustic/half full band, […]
I wanted to make a mainly acoustic record but with a really full sound like Gordon Lightfoot’s early albums. I also wanted to write some folk ballads, words that had a narrative. The ghost story in “Daddy’s Lantern”, “Raspberry Bush” inspired by an old Toronto cold case and the Northern Ontario love song “Mansion Round […]
