Hi everyone, thanks for tuning in. I’ve been reading other writers on Substack for a while now, and believe in the format. I’ve decided to start posting and have started a Substack publication, Watching Rome Burn. There, you can read this new introductory essay, with more to come. You will continue to receive my newsletter with updates on what’s going on with me, including tour notifications, record release info, and short excerpts of my writing - now via Substack. Click subscribe below upgrade for exclusive access to new essays I will publish here for the first time. “Few performers dissolve into their music as completely as Brad Mehldau. To watch him live is to witness a man disappearing into his own interior, as though the piano were a threshold. In Mehldau's hands, the piano becomes both confessional and sanctuary; an instrument for meeting the unmet parts of the self. His gift lies in making his interior feel universal, turning inwardness into a kind of communion.”– Grace Easton, The Line of Best Fit