Our second short-form episode. I was fresh out of college, year 2000, 23 years old, I met Greg in the hall on my first day of teaching at Kankakee Valley Schools. I was holding a viola case, which caused him to strike up a conversation. Greg was, I remember him telling me, a huge music fan and music maker. While showing me to my classroom, he said “We should jam sometime,” as musicians do. Later that year, we did, and I was blown away! He played in circles around me and his writing was both informed by our rural, farm country region, while transcending it with great imaginative license. I learned so much from Greg about how to be a Dad/Teacher/Citizen/Hoosier/Songwriter/Rock Star- all rolled into one. Before anyone was impressed with how I pulled that off back in the day, Greg modeled it for me. For over 20 years now we have had a fruitful musical friendship and I can’t recommend his catalog enough. Check it out! The song in the bed of the 2nd half is Greg’s song “Say It Again.”

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