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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. […]

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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 […]

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I worked a few years ago with a musician who was shitty to work with, mostly because he lied. Not enormous lies. Just the kind that slowly makes working with […]

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Sandy who owned the Peter Pan died, which is a rotten trick even for Peter Pan, a place whose very name suggested nobody was supposed to get any older in […]

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Morris disliked the suggestion he had discovered a secret. He hadn’t. He hated waiting rooms, pharmaceutical hold music, government forms, musicians who didn’t bring cables, and anyone who used the […]

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Next year, at a certain point I am doing 2 weeks of house concerts in BC. What would be the best way to organize the costs of driving? They start […]

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Dave Davies isn’t waving a little progressive-rock flag saying, “Look everybody, I’m in five.” The basic pulse can be heard as five beats to the bar, often felt less as […]

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The orphalon was discovered by Freddie Cheesecake. He found it in the basement of a house outside Thunder Bay wrapped in a wool blanket beside three jars of peaches. It […]

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Leonard played second trombone in the orchestra for thirty-seven years. He liked second because it allowed him to participate in enormous things without necessarily being blamed for them. The first […]

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Tonight I made one of those concoctions for which there is no recipe because admitting there was a recipe would imply somebody planned it. I started with my tomato sauce, […]