All week I’m reading The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievitch, verbatim interviews from zillions of Russian women about what they did in World War Two, it’s hard to […]

I’m starting to think I had it all wrong and life isn’t just about Little Walter and Sonny Terry. Fortunately through older brotherness, my childhood also featured Howlin’ Wolf, but […]

By the time I recorded her the second time, her life dramatically changed. Marriage ended, one daughter died in a car accident and life was on the street. Now in […]

I hate the volume from so many cars and trucks on the street, so the park rules my heart of walking. I like listening to the emptiness. Sometimes, despite best […]

The reason she liked using open tunings was for the same reason that Joni Mitchell did; the intentional short circuiting of what one already knows. For Susan it was like […]

Yesterday I had to drive somewhere and turned on my first choice for Toronto radio, the U of T station CIUT and they were playing Little Darlin’ but not The […]

I was reading a book for school on theatrical improvisation. At the start of one chapter they quoted an old interview with Roman Polanski about Knife In The Water, his […]

Susan liked her room in the shared house, it meant she really had arrived. Previously, she stayed with Svetlana which was good the first couple days even though it was […]

A student explained that their song was about the fact that nobody controls anything, that everything happening is beyond your control. The Earth is suspended in space among who knows […]

A student wrote me to complain about another student who they thought was a threat to the class vibe and should be addressed. The student they complained about, presented a […]