One of my resolutions for 2025 is to share a lot more music with you all…so let’s start the year off right with a new song, released today to my YouTube channel:

2024 was an odd year for me, musically. I hit the ground running with a live instrumental video early in the year, and had planned to play a lot of shows in the following months. But then I took a pretty bad vocal injury in late winter, and that totally derailed those plans. The long and short is that going in and out of the cold very early one morning caused something to snap in my throat, which made it feel like I had a ping pong ball stuck in there and was uncomfortably painful whenever I sang or used my voice for anything other than fairly muted talking. Thankfully no surgery was needed, and the ENT doctor told me after scoping my throat that it was the equivalent of a very bad sprain. But it’s been a long road filled with mandatory vocal rest — about 6 months until I was able to sing at all, and then a few more months before I was back in performance shape. Honestly, I’m still not quite back to 100% vocally, but am very grateful to have regained as much as I have. The journey continues!

This song, “Anything, Everything”, was recorded live at Skyfall Recording Studio in Greenwich NY around two months before the injury. It’s one of the more experimental songs I’ve written, using a variety of harmonics, rhythmic hits on the guitar body, and string slaps, as well as a gradually building song structure that’s a little unusual. Overall I’m pretty happy with how it turned out! Hope you enjoy it!

After this, I’ve got at least one more song from this Skyfall session that I’ll be releasing in the coming weeks. And after that…we’ll see! I’ve been writing some new material, some of which got debuted at my show at The Depot in Cambridge NY last month, and others of which have yet to be played out. I’m very excited to get back to sharing music now that I’m recovered, and hopeful this’ll be a good year on that front. Expect more songs, more blog posts talking about what I’m up to, and more videos ahead!

Here’s to a great 2025 ahead for you and your loved ones! May it be filled with music, and more triumphs than challenges 🤘 – D