Are You Experienced
At some point somebody showed me how to play 10ths on the piano, the very large stretch between pinky and thumb. Seemed impossible especially after I met Al Hershfield who […]
Bob Wiseman
summer camp
In a circle with 11 year olds going round stating each one’s name and favourite song, unsurprisingly I hear them say Old Town Road, Bohemian Rhapsody, Baby Shark and then […]
The Upcoming Course
More time planning songwriting course for this fall at UWO. I know from past experiences, my love of song won’t be as infectious with currently popular will be. So we’ll […]
The Art of Rhythm Guitar
Sometimes people tune into the fact that all of us are positioned to experience the world as though we are the stars of a movie, a movie about us. Sometimes […]
music instead
Wondering about the state of people prior to language, what those minds were like since in our time it’s about ceaseless wording between the ears. Have heard it said our […]
singing commercials
I had to learn Riptide for a presentation and while doing some research I looked at Vance Joy’s Wiki and noticed his most famous song established in no small part […]
Rick Astley in 5
Some last minute items necessary for a little girl attending summer camp. Would rather not be in Walmart but choices were limited and then it happened – Rick Astley, but […]
Solo Bass
I met Paul Krassner, we both played The Bitter End on Earth Day 2000, he was doing stand-up. Later, he introduced me to Odetta which I can’t describe except for […]
something about the water in hagersville
Someone told me about a location where musicians were very creative. It might be true that someone does more work somewhere beautiful but that’s never quite made sense to me […]
either or
Zen story about a monk in the 9th century that came upon a piano in the forest and wrote a song about the fact that everything is actually either physical […]