Quitting Time
Published: Fri, 05/13/22
Basically, at some point you can't fully invest in the ne t thing without letting go of the last thing, so while it takes a certain amount of…
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Sprints
Published: Fri, 05/06/22
Sometime soon after I'd moved to New York, I went to a workshop on the creative process led by a composer named Robert Fritz. What I was doing at…
Music is a Practice
Published: Sat, 04/30/22
" I've been feeling a version of that the past few weeks whenever I look over at the case my Hybrid 7-string guitar resides in. You know how it is – I…
The Art World
Published: Fri, 04/29/22
I saw a lot of Te as musicians play when I lived in New York. I've never been able to work out what direction the vibrational magnetism was working in…
Show Gerbils
Published: Wed, 04/27/22
About si months ago I got myself these green suede high-top sneakers. I have learned a thing or two about footwear in my decades upon this planet,…
Insufferable Hubris
Published: Mon, 04/25/22
"Frankie And Johnny" has never been one of my favorite blues tunes, despite having spent my share of time around versions by Taj Mahal and Mississippi…
The Loud Business
Published: Fri, 04/22/22
One of my favorite guitarists, Mike Bloomfield, was once trying to e plain how, for the first few years, he wasn't able to do much of anything. But…
Les Chips
Published: Fri, 04/15/22
According to Frank Zappa, "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or…
Breathe
Published: Fri, 04/08/22
and yet for a time he kept a note taped to his guitar that had just one word on it: "Breathe." Sometimes when I'm improvising and I feel myself trying…
Doughnuts and Turnarounds
Published: Fri, 04/01/22
get a Dunkin' Donut in Austin. This is not something I have taken the trouble to do, mostly because I am conditioned to get my powdered-torus fi when…