What Lao Tsu Told Sam Sniderman
There is this beautiful thing about arranging. You listen to it 10 million times and make changes over and over until it feels like there is nothing left to do. […]
Songwriting
The Sheltered Youth
There is a certain laugh people laugh when have a realization which will alter everything they previously thought. Like when Charlton Heston sees the Statue of Liberty while riding away […]
50 Cent and Vitamin Water?!
Somewhere in America they love me – or at least they did one day last August when a writer for Earbits named Scott Feldman was given the assignment of reviewing […]
About Sam Larkin: brick through glass
Sam gave me advice when I was in my early 20s about establishing a career. “I don’t know what to do Sam, it’s like a fixed game.” “It’s easy Bob […]
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Joni Mitchell’s process when she wrote the album Mingus was to hang with Charles Mingus and meditate about it afterward then write. Or at least that’s how I remember her […]
About Sam Larkin: reincarnation
Sam believed in past lives. I never could get my head around that line of thought. He told me when we met in 1982 that I had obviously been playing […]
Death by Manglesdorff
Bill Smith’s piece about Albert Manglesdorff is killing me. And this video with Pastorius and Alphonse Mouzon doesn’t hurt.
Holted In My Tracks
Michael Holt (winner of Mr. New Age 1993) this morning sent me this special performance from Sweden. He changed some of the lyrics to my song (improved maybe) and why […]
Baltimore
Nina Simone wrote amazing songs and propelled forward great songs by others. An honour for Randy Newman that she would record his music. It’s also one of the most likeable […]
Apple Pie And Ice Cream Do You Treat Your Mama Mean?
Jackie Lomax died. Does Tricia Olson know? She played me his music in her green stucco Furby street apartment sometime before the 70s ended. I had all the Beatles solo […]