By two in the morning Eddie had played forty minutes of music, sold three CDs, lost his phone charger and agreed to sleep in the basement of a man named […]

There was a guitarist who became frightened of wrong notes. When he was young he played thousands of them and didn’t care. Later, when people began calling him serious, it […]

There was a musician who travelled from teacher to teacher asking how to find his voice, although he already possessed a voice and used it constantly to explain that he […]

There was a guitarist named Stanley who could play anything except what people wanted him to play, which made him either an artist or unemployed depending which side of the […]

Avram believed a chord existed containing the secret architecture of creation. He had heard this from an old cantor in Vilnius who had heard it from a violinist in Kraków […]

A musician named Lena was afraid of herself. This was difficult to explain. Wherever she went the person she feared arrived at the same time. She could avoid difficult promoters, […]

Halfway through making his record, Marlon developed carpal tunnel. He blamed the piano, then the computer, then age, then the piano again. His wrist hurt when he played octaves. Occasionally […]

Shirley began as a kid on an ordinary clarinet. It appeared in school bands. It had music written specifically for it. Her parents understood what it was, more or less. […]

Every night brought a different mattress, different pillow, and a different mysterious light blinking near the television. For years he slept wherever tours put him. Motels beside highways, promoters’ basements […]