No, I don’t mean riding it like a broom. I mean taking it on the plane. If you’re traveling to a gig, you have to bring the guitar. But if you’re just flying on a vacation or business trip, should you take the guitar along? And if so, how? First of all, yes, you should [...]
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Levi-Strauss on music
these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
Mother’s Best Music Festival
Mother’s Best Music Festival — it’s named after another brand of flour that once sponsored a radio show in Helena, Ark. (King Biscuit Flour was the sponsor of King Biscuit Time, which lent its name to the town’s much bigger and longer-running festival, the King Biscuit Blues Festival, until an unfortunate legal challenge took that [...]
Say Amen, Somebody!
I enthusiastically recommend Say Amen, Somebody. It is a movie about gospel music but a major part of it is blues singer Georgia Tom, who rechristened himself Thomas A. Dorsey when he became the Father of Gospel Music. The reasons you, a blues fan, ought to run right out and get it from your library [...]
Steve’s sample song
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Listening spectrum 2007
Listening spectrum Originally published 1/23/2007 (I adapted this from a jazz newsletter; I think that writer adapted it himself from a music-appreciation class.) In most clubs, the best it gets is number 3, often it stays at number 2. When I give a concert I strive, and often manage to, get the listeners up to [...]
how to behave with live music 2006
how to behave with live music Originally published 10/23/2006 I played at a restaurant last night. There were a couple tables of people already there before I started. I played a song, then a second one, and got no reaction at all from any of them. They didn’t applaud, didn’t even look over to see [...]