There are still plenty of good ol’ singer/songwriters who gather a fitting crowd regardless of venue, wardrobe, advertising, or irony earning points. Bill Callahan and David Bazan are those types of musicians.
The image of the Starving Artist in the garret has been supplanted by the Savvy Artist-Administrator in the office, on the stage, and on the iPhone.
“Really listening,” my first grade teacher would say, “is not just sitting silently.”
Writing and ballroom have become two partners in my own dance of being alive. They challenge me to constantly practice attentiveness to the world, keeping my body and mind aware and moving as intimate partners that cannot perform without the other.
Let the record state, I have recently fallen in love with bluegrass music.
Or how hubris was sent to the hospital.
Sometimes it’s more important to listen to the music that needs listeners than the music that everyone listens to.
“Everything dies, baby that’s a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back.”