Theo, in the living room, evening light, soft time, muted gold, an eye wash of sunlight and inner life, the big photo album balanced gently on his knees. Blonde hair across his face, hiding the curiosity in his eye, matching gazes with the young woman in the picture, head crowned in braids, skin fair and [...]
Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men’s souls to joy.” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road The music flows in and out of your senses as easily as the sweat raises your skin. What [...]
To make art, we have to let go of our conceptions, trample our structures, release our soul. When we have laid it all out, we’ll understand ourselves, the essence of our sound. This takes courage. This great photo is one of many musician photos by Juan Carlos Hernandez.
Why do I just wither and forget all resistance When you and your magic pass by? My 12-year is ready to hear music now. Car rides become the opportunity for discovery. Yesterday, we heard the careful balance between art and craft and authenticity: Chrissie Hynde, Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughan. I could feel the music [...]
Listen and let your mind go still.
So, yes, things were getting a little too serious around here. For me, at least. The serious stuff was making my head bog down, and when that happens it’s time to go grab for the light smile. After all, there are a few of you now. I mean, an audience, who’s decided to follow for [...]
I’m just a sucker for Joey Ramone’s soft voice. He recorded one of my two all-time favorite covers with It’s a Wonderful World (the other is the former Student Teacher’s Philip Shelley’s unrecorded version of Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right, which I had on a cassette tape for the longest time before it sucuumbed [...]
American Bandstand meets Debbie Harry. She goes utterly cool, a McLuhan-like antidote to the hot mainstreaming of the Bandstand. The audience? Watch for the hot-body boytoy in the yellow form-fitting T in the front row. Just to be sure younger readers know, that wasn’t the typical look for the launch of New Wave. But it [...]
Do not play what’s there; play what’s not there. Miles Davis
There was a time once when the opening bars of this song — almost any by the Pogues, really — would bring the sense of tears to the corners of my eyes, a tightness across my chest. There was so much Love that had been lost, so much yearning that had been misplaced, too many [...]