Musings and Music Reviews
If you were one of the 70 people at the Anza Club in Vancouver on Friday, CONGRATULATIONS! YOU’RE A WINNER! You just witnessed a consummate artist perform a great show in an intimate living room-type setting with great sound and an audience that no one needed to shush. If you took Taj Mahal, Randy Newman, Chet Atkins, Lyle Lovett, Elvis …
There are so many things around us that can be used as the basis for a song. Inspiration is NOT something you can count on. You need to keep a running list of titles and ideas for songs for the times when a song doesn’t just pop out. The finished song often goes in a completely different direction than the …
“I’ll say goodbye to cousin Phyllis Just tell the gardener he should bill us” - from “The End of The World” by Deborah Holland, The Book Of Survival, Gadfly Records 1999 I had a choice of seeing Phyllis alive one last time or attending her memorial. I chose to see her alive and I’m glad I made that decision, …
(I don’t think I could express the same glorification for men’s ponytails) A ponytail IS a hairstyle, NOT an excuse I would “guestimate” that 4 out of every 7 days of the week for at least part (or whole) of the day my hair ends up (or begins) in a ponytail. For anyone who is not absolutely sure what a …