don’t need no man
We go to a restaurant and the server brings us a loaf of bread before the meal and my daughter tries to cut it and one side sticks up in […]
Bob Wiseman
Holiday Tavern, 1988
Started to work on a song using the Joni Mitchell left hand piano technique which in truth is much older than Blue but she sort of made it all classic, […]
you got this
A musician watched a video of a woman skiing down a narrow steep cliff and it’s intense. What also stood out was it starts with the skier saying to herself […]
Feb 8, alien
Organizing a night of people playing songs by Mendeslon Joe or reading his writing. Saturday Feb 8th. I hope the old cranky bluesman’s ghost is conjured. I invited performers from […]
don’t tell us the story b4 singing
I listened to a singer songwriter on stage tonight introduce each of her songs by talking a little too long about her relationship with her father or her thoughts about […]
working for the clampdown
Over the speakers at the airport I heard them playing Clampdown by The Clash and I thought how amazing that whatever starts out rebellious or shocking is, in the fullness […]
most of the time signatures
Sometimes I read from musicians who worked with Bob Dylan, that unannounced he changes time signatures. They make it sound like intentional testing them. I have had that experience where […]
the hallmark sessions
You kiddin’ me? I never heard of the Hallmark Sessions. 1961 Lenny Breau, Rick Danko and Levon Helm. The very first cut It Could Happen to You, simply too surreal. […]
as above
There is an odd duality in which I can practice trying to do something on a piano and I will increase my ability over time and yet if I try […]
swimming pool
My daughter is more identified with the violin than previously. This is the forth time, starting when five years old. I go and rent it from the music store, she […]