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Shel Silverstein: the Little Library Where the Sidewalk Ends and Jennifer...
A few years ago, in an attempt to be a cutting-edge, high-tech institution, the powers-that-be decided that the school I teach in didn’t need a library. The library is superfluous, they claimed....
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Performing in a pandemic year
Buskers wearing masks I had planned to quit teaching at the end of the 2019-2020 school year. Pack it in, that June. I had no real definite plans besides vague ideas of going to movies and concerts,...
View ArticleOriginal song: “Headed Straight to Nowhere”
Most of my Sunday Morning Tunes are covers of other people’s songs. This week, however, I’m putting up an original song. Hope you like it.
View Article“Fishin’ Blues”
The Lovin’ Spoonful were a meteoric band that left the scene almost as quickly as they arrived. Within 14 months, from October 1965 to January 1967, their first seven singles reached the Top Ten....
View Article“Sittin’ on Top of the World”
I don’t know why but lately I’ve been hearing the Flatlanders’ version of “Sittin’ on Top of the World” a lot. The Flatlanders–consisting of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, childhood...
View Article“Cassidy”
Neal Cassidy was the inspiration for Sal Paradiso in Jack Kerouc’s On the Road. He was also the driver of the bus for Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. (Memorialized so well by Tom Wolfe in The ELectric...
View Article“MotorPsycho Nightmare”
Being scared is not an emotion I enjoy. I don’t movies that deal with horror, with psychological trauma, with evil. I don’t even like films with flying monkeys! So suffice it to say, I have not seen...
View Article“Funny How Time Slips Away”
Dave Matthews sang this song when he inducted Willie Nelson into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He performed it again at Willie’s 90th birthday celebration. And then just last week I saw Willie...
View Article“Desperado”
“Desperado” is one of the first songs that Glenn Frey and Don Henley wrote togethe. It is also one of The Eagles’ most popular songs. Never released as a single, it nevertheless banked No. 494 on...
View Article“I Remember Everything”
“I Remember Everything” is the last song that John Prine recorded. It was released posthumously in June 2020, 3 months after Prine died of complications from COVID-19. It is a reminiscing, sweet song,...
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