Please listen to EVERYDAY just once.  You will be drawn into playing it every day.  I was.

Sort of like pistachios for the soul!

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I remember by school years quite well.  I remember Mrs. Love, an art teacher that never gave up on me even though my stick figures were not recognizable as, well, stick figures.  I remember detention hall for shooting spitballs.

I also remember Christmas Carols.  No, not Frosty the Snowman or Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer.  I remember O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark the Herald Angles Sing, O Holy Night, O Come All Ye Faithful and other Christmas songs that actually mentioned Jesus, the Christ, our Savior. Read more »

I turned on the news and I saw the announcement of the death of Farrah Fawcett.  Ed McMahon had just died a couple of days ago and I wondered about that old urban legend that celebrity deaths come in threes.  Who would be next? Read more »

Jammie Thomas-Rasset is a convicted Pirate.  No, she is not a member of the famous Pittsburgh baseball team.  She is not a Somali terrorist pirate on the high seas and does not own a swash-buckling sword, a fully-automatic AK-47 or a Rocket Propelled Grenade launcher.  However, she was convicted of Piracy. Read more »

Politics and music usually do not mix, especially if the musician is a conservative like I am.  All of my musical life I have been surrounded by liberal musicians and have worked my hardest to keep a low political profile on the job.  Sometimes, people bring up my right (and correct) leanings, I rightfully defend my position and we agree to disagree.

I have always had the Blues as my mistress.  Don’t get me wrong, I love jazz, funk, classical and most of the other musical forms, but the Blues has always coveted my musical soul. Read more »