Blues For Emily
Published: Fri, 06/24/22
If you had asked me in the spring of my senior year where I was going when I got out of school, I probably would have said "Anywhere but New York."…
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Center and Periphery
Published: Fri, 06/17/22
The Fretboard family dog is a rather fluffy specimen, and not a small animal, either. She's partial to running around with other dogs, preferably of a…
Backwards Psychology
Published: Fri, 06/10/22
No one really wanted the classical music shift at my college radio station, so if you wanted to get your hours in without working overnight from one…
"Why Do We Play The Gig?"
Published: Fri, 06/03/22
Casa Fretboard was poised to make tracks for New England when some non-specific, non-Covid virus with a serious entrepreneurial streak decided to set…
There It Is
Published: Fri, 05/27/22
There seem to be clawhammer banjos all around me just now. Most nights, we take the family hound up to a momentarily unused schoolyard to frolic with…
A Slightly Ridiculous Avocation
Published: Fri, 05/20/22
As I write this, I'm about to go play my first gig ever with the Hybrid 7-string guitar I acquired si months ago. In one of those weird moments where…
A Righteous Pair Of Black Boots
Published: Tue, 05/17/22
The kid down the street from us is really into music, so when I go out on the back porch in the summer, I sometimes hear him practicing drums, or…
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…
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…