I am not religious, but I love Gospel music. It’s funny, I find religion interesting, I just don’t have any religious feeling. The only time I come close to understanding what people get out of religion is when I’m listening to Gospel. I’ve always wanted to attend a black church just to listen to the…
I’ve always had a bit of a problem separating things like music by genres. In a recent piece I wrote, I made the statement, “I tend to think of all worthwhile American music as being a type of blues.”* I knew when I typed it that the statement would bother some people. People have a…
After cataloging my Blues collection, I decided to do something small, Reggae. I believe Reggae is the smallest segment of my collection that I will bother separating. I almost didn’t. I almost just lumped it in with Folk, but most people, in America at least, think of American Folk music when they hear Folk, so…
A long time ago, I wrote this piece about collecting classical music. It was so long ago that it was on a different blog. I’m still working on the project of cataloging my record collection. After I finished classical, I moved on to blues. It’s taken me a while to get everything in, but now…
Today I’m really at a loss what to write about for my December 2017 daily post. One thing about the holidays is they are more fun when we share things. So, tonight I want to share one of my favorite pieces of holiday music. It’s the album Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah* by The Klezmatics….
At this time, I want to bring your attention to something shameful. The album Christmas Soul Special is rare. Apparently we live in a world where people either don’t know about it or they don’t want to hear it. I really hope it’s that they don’t know about it. Ignorance isn’t a good excuse, but…
I took my daughter to see The Nutcracker. It was fun. I know next to nothing about dance, but from my perspective, they did a nice job. Yet I didn’t enjoy it as much as other productions I’ve seen because there were no live musicians. The company was dancing to a recording. I found that to…
One of the oddest effects of depression is being unable to enjoy things that I know are enjoyable. For me, that is most noticeable with music. I am completely obsessed with music and have been ever since I can remember. I have a huge record collection. I go to shows whenever I can. I play…
I have been an avid, some might say obsessive, music fan for as long as I can remember. As a result, I have a much bigger collection of music than anyone with as little money as I have had should have. Recently, I decided to start cataloging my collection. It’s in pretty rough shape after…
