

Meet My Family
Meet my family: My wonderful wife Angela and two daughters Addelaide (9) and Calliope (5). We all Love to Sing! Angie works for a...


Worry Is Misuse of the Imagination
Synchronicity. Serendipity. A Happy Co-ink-ee-dink (that is coincidence in normal speak). Kismet. The Wu Way. Be-ing in Alignment. ...


Community Supported Art (CSA)
I Am an advocate for local food and farming. For years now I have supplemented my rockstar income with different organic farming jobs. ...


Ed is Dead
The new Stanton West album, Songbird, is my life story. Within it there are two shorter stories. All the stories follow the same...


Help Songbird Take Flight!
The first time I saw Joe Craven perform was with the David Grisman Quintet in 1996 at the Overture Center in Madison, WI. Joe played an...


What Makes A Songbird Sing?
These are production notes to my producer, Joe Craven, and the sound engineer at Foxtail Studios for my upcoming album, Songbird… The...


Where Do Songs Come From?
There are 2 basic components to creating a song. The first is what I call organizational creativity and involves using your brain to...


Love is for the Birds
I am drawn to birds because of what they represent. Birds are to lizards as flowers are to plants or Angels are to humans. Birds are...


Why Am I So Strange?
Why am I so strange? Maybe my bio gives us a hint to that longstanding question: “Folksinger Stanton West sees the world from the...


Don’t look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
Weddings are the one place where everyone in my family puts all there drama away and tries to get along for a whole day. This excludes...