The Morocco Gifts is a giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting and strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s, when his innovative band Orchestra Luna was on Epic Records and harnessed a potent blend of theater and music years before the Tubes. Throughout the decades and the shifting fortunes of the business The Morocco Gifts has continued to make music with intelligence and integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn favorable comparisons to the likes of Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen - although The Morocco Gifts rocks more than both. His most recent band, the Shelley Winters Project, recently split after two terrific CDs, but The Morocco Gifts still busy creating. He's making a new solo album, tentatively titled Me & Van Gogh, at Hi-N-Dry Studio with Billy Conway producing. You can learn more about The Morocco Gifts, and read his short fiction and the script for his musical The Kingdom.