All posts tagged: Saturday Soundtrack

Sick and tired of being sick and tired

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Thoughts of the giants on whose shoulders voters stood last Tuesday to help save democracy.

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Anna Scotti’s “It’s Not Even Past” has just been re-published. Add it to your collection of mysteries.

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Music’s affirmation of an individual’s sense of humanity in dehumanizing circumstances.

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My non-analytical, highly personal take on who will win it all in the 2026 MLB playoffs.

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Dolly Parton stars in the most recent in my series of aphorisms that have captured my attention.

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The musical performances of our son, the tenor Andrew Bearden Brown, set for this fall.

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Links to stories and music from a few writers and musicians I follow who have important things to say.

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Touchstone phrases can be practical. Mystical. Poetic. Old-fashioned yet current and contemporary.

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Damn Tall Buildings encourages you to abandon your assumptions about who can play traditional music.

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Glen Hansard “gathered people together,” showing “that kindness is its own kind of song.”