Category Archives: Music

Jonny Lang’s “Signs” rolls out like thunder

Posted on September 9, 2017 by

I can’t exactly figure out why Jonny Lang is the recipient of complaints that he needs to “get back to the blues.”  He never left it. He did manage to leave the randier, entendre-ridden traditions of the blues with his … Continue reading →

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Crowdfunding redux

Posted on March 29, 2016 by

A few weeks ago, I was standing outside, in  a break area at work, tossing in my harmonies to the rhetorical cantata that was going on at the moment.  My co-worker, Bill, mentioned that before he moved to my area, … Continue reading →

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And now–yet another project in the works

Posted on March 26, 2016 by

When i decided on the moniker for this blog, it wasn’t exactly a task rendered under flippant conditions. Even if the title, “Master of None” seems as if it comes out of the same comedic genepool of,”are you working hard, … Continue reading →

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I had a song come to me in my sleep, and Adele isn’t going to get away with stealing it

Posted on December 20, 2015 by

  So it’s a well-known fact that the majority of my creative inertia comes during the night. I’ve had moments of epiphany that are unrivaled right after a good night’s rest. It is common knowledge that I wrote the song … Continue reading →

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At the Crossroads of common literary decency with Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Posted on July 3, 2015 by

There is a common literary technique accompanied by a lesser-known phrase, known as the In medias res—a latin phrase for “in the middle of things.” The tactic is used to suck a reader in to the main vortex of a … Continue reading →

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Wow, am I easily derailed

Posted on June 30, 2015 by

It seems only like yesterday, I was pontificating, ruminating, cogitating, deliberating and prevaricating about wanting to write my book–complete with the breathless declaration that I had completed the first chapter. Then, I went to McCloud on a church.family camp thingamabob.  I … Continue reading →

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Oficina G3, Petra, and getting viewed 30,000 times

Posted on June 26, 2015 by

In case the backstory here is a bit muddy, let me give you a bit of my history. When I was a teenager, growing up in a church, and a Christian school, this was my favorite record: Not of This … Continue reading →

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VLOG: Apparently, Oficina G3 makes me run into other people’s cabins

Posted on June 25, 2015 by

If you’ve been here reading my veritable assaults against normalcy, you would well know my fascination–YEAH EVEN A FANSHIP of–the band Oficina G3.  But, for all points and purposes here, NONE of that matters.  All you need to know is–they … Continue reading →

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VLOG: Bluesin’ by the railhead

Posted on June 25, 2015 by

So I realize the explanatory side of this is weak.  But these trains are part of my history–I wish they were running.  But they are no longer . . .

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Blues by the tracks 

Posted on June 24, 2015 by

Beautiful morning.

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