When Death goes on strike
Goethe’s aphorism: “Live within the moment, live in eternity” reveals the “enigmatic meaning of art.”
All posts tagged: Saturday Soundtrack
Semi-regular Saturday updates – to break out of the more serious posts on other days of the week – on musical events, musicians and bands that catch my ear. Think of Paul Krugman’s “Friday Night Music” blog posts…without the PhD in Economics (not to mention the Nobel Prize).
What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow
Two of the original members of the Carolina Chocolate Drops have a new album out in April.
Let my people go . . . speaking truth to power
The mixing of politics and religion goes back at least to Moses and Pharoah
You can do this hard thing
Let’s acknowledges the difficulty while affirming that we have everything needed to move forward
Music of perseverance. Music of hope. Music for the MLK Weekend.
Music of hope and perseverance, when we need it most, from those who have traveled this road.
Joy, dreams, faith, honesty, melancholy . . . and riff raff
Highlights from The Bitter Southerners’ Best Southern Albums of 2024.
The Turning Year
I wish you “the power to know just what to keep and what let go.”
Gifts of music for Yuletide
Traditional Yuletide carols performed by several of my favorite musicians and vocal groups.
Rest in the grace of the world
When despair for the world grows, come into the peace of wild things.
A guitar that sounds “the way bacon smells”
Bonnie Raitt, a 2024 Kennedy Center Honoree, is a national treasure.
MORE TO COME... 