It seems like just yesterday I was sitting in a small bedroom in my garden unit apartment on the north side of Chicago unemployed and looking for a job, trying to figure out a way to quit work and make music. Everyone has to make a living, but I know there's something special about working every day on something you truly love. For me that thing is and always has been music. My mother told me a that when I was a baby, all she had to do was turn on a radio to make me stop cryi