Tag: #songwriting #spokenword #musicwriting

  • SAGA OF A LOVE AFFAIR WITH RADIO

      The radio was on in my childhood home, always. A radio keeps songs alive – long after they’re hits – if you find the right station.  I was two years old when Harry Belafonte’s Banana Boat Song climbed the charts, but my hometown station played it for years where it lodged in my mind.…

  • Steering Our Way in Troubled Waters (video)

    Steer Your Way – From You Want it Darker,  Leonard Cohen Resist the temptation to run away, put God on it, seek to justify or find salvation. It’s our mess and we deserve it. A Pandemic killing millions worldwide; Armed insurrection at US Capitol; a President calling to overturn a Democratic election; Giant problems rolling…

  • GATHERING AT THE VALLEY OF FLUID ANGLES

    Words and music below for my spoken word piece accompanied by sitar. My friend Dino Corvino in his, “Here You Are Wausau” podcast will be focusing on Writing in Public – what he also calls citizen journalism – in his next few episodes. He’ll be speaking with a few friends that write, talking about his…