Browsing: Opinion

If you are a musician, you already have the fundamental skills and necessary rational thinking and feeling processes to become a competent computer programmer. Music, like programming, is all about knowing basic theories, forms, and structures.

Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)

If you are drawn to the highway, there is no other choice. It is just a natural fact because, as Tom Cochrane tells us, “Life Is A Highway.”

Remembering one of the founding fathers of soul music, Solomon Burke, on his day of birth!

Black Lives Matter is about people being mad as hell who are not going to take it anymore. It looks like good change is on the way. I have hope.

The tragedy went beyond just the music, which they say died that fateful night.

Willie once said, “The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It’s better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on…”

The arts will hold our hands through the darkness. These are the backstories of five artists who provided us with survival soundtracks for the year that never seemed to end.

As we remember George Harrison twenty years later we should remember both his spirituality and his humor.

A wonderful world indeed. And Thanksgiving Day is a perfect time to be grateful for it.