Summertime and the Listening Is Easy

Sit back, relax, and enjoy. Couldn’t be easier. My thanks to Joe Morrissey, Anne Morrissey (no relation), Craig Hardlow, Stephem Paskey, Duane Wilder, and Numero Uno for these tracks. I couldn’t do it without you! Find your fave!

“It’s the end of the strain, it’s the joy in your heart”

As we navigate the waters of March and the month’s wild temperature swings, here’s yet another musical mosaic of artists and tastes. Nibble away; I hope you find a tune that fits into your own Spring soundtrack. My thanks to all the contributors: David Brucia, Anne Morrissey, Joe Craig, and Numero Uno. Gassho. Meanwhile, thank

Side A: The Boomers are Bummed; Side B: Long Time Coming

I’m one of them, a latter-day hippie-boomer going down memory lane in a funk.  First Jeff Beck. Then David Crosby. Yeah, a one-two punch in the gut. I’ll admit, I wasn’t a big Beck fan back in my teeny-bopper days, but it was hard to escape the Yardbirds in the late 60s when the “British

A Time to Reap

I don’t know about you, but, of all the changes in seasons, the one from summer to autumn seems to me to be the most dramatic and definitive. One day it’s summer heat, the next day my heat comes from a furnace as nights chill into the 40s. Children go back to school and Hollybrook

You’ve Got a Friend in Music…aboard the Queen Mary 2!

I wouldn’t have been on this seven-night cruise aboard my beloved QM2 had it not been for music. As some of you know, I sailed the world’s only ocean liner in 2019 on a World Voyage that took me to ports in 22 countries in 108 days. Needless to say, the cruise of a lifetime.

Six More Weeks of Something or Other

Whew, we made it through January, the new year already tarnished by thirty-one days of somber news—the Omicron phenom of explosive sickness and death and tolls on society, a tsunami that by now has most likely touched every single one of us in one way or another. But! But! But! As of this writing, the

“Funky country blues fusion”— An Interview with Guitarist George Ott

George Ott bills himself as a “long-suffering, underappreciated Jersey Shore musician.” At least that’s how he “signed” the blurb he wrote for my forthcoming book, My Body the Guitar (see previous post). As a thank you to George for writing the blub—and to amp up appreciation for him and his remarkable talents, I interviewed him