Apologies for not posting this sooner. My two-year-old daughter went into daycare two weeks ago and apparently the first lesson they teach the youngins is how to turn into a human petri dish. Ye gods. From Sunday evening through Friday morning I had trouble forming coherent sentences. Damn punk kids, stay outta my immune system! […]
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“My music has a little bit of a spiritual taste, but it’s also primitive. I play the guitar as if I was playing drums.” -Bo Diddley A musician doesn’t beat a drum, he plays a drum. He coaxes multiple rhythms from that drum, in an effort to tell his story and to support others contributing […]
Read More“I’m a part of Willie Nelson‘s world and I love it, but at the same time, I’m part of the Grateful Dead‘s world. One night I might be playing twin fiddles at the Broken Spoke and the next night I’ll be down at Antone’s playing blues. In that way Texas is a paradise, because all […]
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“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” -President Abraham Lincoln from his Gettysburg Address Memorial Day was established to honor American men and women who have perished while in military service to their country*. That said, […]
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In the spirit of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, let alone the Six Degrees of Sir Francis Bacon, here are six songs connected in different ways. The bonds may be tenuous, but they exist, and they illustrate the interconnectedness of music across different eras. Download 6-song playlist as zip file (44 MB, all […]
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