Jason Peterson, Writer

  Like a lot of folks locked-down during the pandemic, I found myself with a desire to do something positive with the stressful energy building up inside me. That led me back to the creative comfort food of songwriting, which has always been a way for me to get lost in the moment in a different way than other forms of writing. I also had a tremendous amount of fun messing around in GarageBand, recording new instruments and playing with the tools in the program. It was a lovely distraction from everything happening this year. The five songs on this EP  are part of a larger batch I wrote and that may find themselves on other projects, but they felt of a piece and of a time - written and recorded in my home office/guestroom (dubbed the Nana and Papa suite). It's been a refuge for me, and I hope you enjoy what came out of it. Check out Home Office Suite on Bandcamp here: https://themeltedcoins.bandcamp.com/ And the Melted Coins website here:  https://www.themeltedcoins.com/

Really enjoyed speaking with Ian Stich of StichMethod guitar lessons for this Performer Magazine piece. I've learned a ton from Stich over the past few years, and he was a humble and kind as he comes across via his YouTube lessons.  Be sure to check out his stuff (especially his breakdowns of Trey's solos) here:  https://stichmethod.com/

Wrote about the new memoir from Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman for Performer Magazine.  Check out the review here and then dust off your Black Crowes albums to remember what a killer band they were.

I interviewed guitarist extraordinaire Yvette Young for Performer Magazine, which you can check out here . As a guitar-strummer and rudimentary soloist, watching what Yvette is able to do with a guitar is pretty mind-blowing to me. That she's as humble and good humored about her incredible skills is all the better. Check out Yvette in action!

I wrote about Jeff Tweedy's new memoir for Peformer Magazine - check it out here! Super excited to see Jeff in Dallas in early March. I've been to a few Wilco shows, saw The Autumn Defense (John Sirratt and Pat Sansone's side gig) at the Basement in Nashville a few years back, and now Jeff Tweedy solo. All I need is to check out The Nels Cline 4 and one of Glenn Kotche's projects to round out my complete Wilco fanverse. Also have to post this video, which Jeff mentions in the book with the following quote:     Indeed. 

There aren't many restaurant jobs I haven't worked - well, except for the most important one: cook (if only you didn't have to be a good cook to be a cook). But name almost anything else, and I've done it. Dishwasher, busboy, host, waiter, bartender. Some were terrible, some were a blast, and all were made cool in hindsight after reading Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.  I first read Kitchen Confidential while in New Zealand on a working holiday visa. I'd gotten a job washing dishes at a spot were I was hoping to bartend, and his book made that decision feel romantic and exciting (rather than depressing). While I'd worked in restaurants before, I'd never worked in the kitchen. It was a different planet from the front of the room.. Bourdain captured it better than I ever could, and I highly recommend reading his account. I only stayed back there a few weeks, but it's a few weeks I'll never forget. Night after night, I hustled like