David Lindley, one of my musical heroes, just passed away and I feel compelled to gather this appreciation of his life and work. I’ve long admired this adventurous, idiosyncratic, impish, eclectic virtuoso of nearly any instrument with strings. I’ve compiled a pair of playlists, one in iTunes and one in YouTube. In doing so, I’ve …
This page is my attempt to save the various playlists I created at the National Museum of African American Music (museum website) when we visited on March 13, 2022. The playlists are on Spotify which is not my preferred platform; I might try to replicate some of them on iTunes, but we’ll see. These playlists …
I was reluctant to dive into this post but couldn’t resist. In March 2022, if things work out, Laurie and I will embark on a music road trip to Nashville and Memphis. In preparation, I started working on a Memphis playlist built around a bunch of tunes I knew that referenced Memphis. After assembling a …
I’ve been endlessly frustrated by the evolution of music media over the past several decades, from vinyl to CD to Napster to MP3 to iPods to Apple Music to Spotify to YouTube to who knows where next. For the time being, there’s a ton of wonderful music concerts, clips and documentaries on YouTube but I …
I wrote a post of appreciation for John Prine shortly before he passed away. It made me realize there are other artists for whom I’d like to share an appreciation while they are still active and hopefully have many more years with us. The first of these that came to mind was Richard Thompson. Richard …
I came to the songs of John Prine indirectly, initially in the early 1970’s through John Denver’s cover of “Paradise” which I learned to play on guitar. The chords were easy, the conversational lyrics were memorably poignant but not too sappy, and I could just about sing them on key. I wasn’t smart enough to …
A record of our preparations for the music festival and vacation originally scheduled for November 2020 in Punta Cana. Getting Started For a number of years, I toyed with the idea of going on the Cayamo Cruise which annually gathered a bunch of my favorite musicians for a week in the Caribbean. The cruise was …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974. 1971 We arrived in Hong Kong on August 15, 1971 with Typhoon Rose. It took us a while to come to terms with Hong …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971. These five years, as I aged from 8 to 13 in Florida and New Jersey, were pivotal in forming my personality, memories and tastes. …
Events that crossed my radar and memories, these many years later. This effort is aided and abetted by reviewing Wikipedia’s listings of each year’s events, in this case, 1965 and 1966. The Sound of Music film debuted in early 1965 and we probably saw it that summer when we returned to the States for vacation. We also …