Music Monday: New York State of Mind
I’ve flown into New York a few times on my way elsewhere, but so far the only time I’ve actually been to New York as a destination was for a computer conference in 1998....
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Music Monday: Northern Lights
My Dad was always an early riser. Even on his days off from work, he’d be up by seven. I don’t think he knew how to lie in–the concept was foreign to him, I’m...
Music Monday: Bolero
The boléro is a type of Spanish dance, but this is Music Monday, not Dance Monday, so I have a specific boléro in mind, perhaps the most famous of them all: Maurice Ravel’s 1928...
Music Monday: Mack the Knife
“Mack the Knife” is one of those songs everyone knows because it’s been around for so long, and anyone who’s anyone has sung a version of it–or so it seems. I always thought it...
Music Monday: We’re All Alone
Have you ever heard a song that sounds vaguely familiar, but you don’t know when you heard it, or who it’s by? And then when it gets to the chorus, or a solo, or...
Music Monday: Is She Really Going Out With Him?
A few weeks ago while discussing the Beatles’ song “Blackbird,” I mentioned my school friend Jon who was learning classical guitar. His parents owned a store in a town just outside of Hereford, where...
Music Monday: The Sound of Silence
This week’s Music Monday is a request from writer friend (and fellow North Carolinian) Donna Everhart. She commented a few weeks ago that this is a song that’s been buzzing around her head while...
Music Monday: Blackbird
When I started learning guitar, it wasn’t long before I wanted to tackle Beatles songs. Indeed, most of my guitar practice was done with Beatles records and a copy of THE BEATLES COMPLETE music...
Music Monday: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
As is true for most teenage musicians who learn their instruments listening to the likes of The Beatles, Billy Joel, Joe Jackson, and Paul McCartney, I had aspirations of becoming a professional musician. Unlike...
Music Monday: Silly Love Songs
For Christmas this year, my wife and family blessed me with the Deluxe Edition of Wings’ “At the Speed of Sound” album from 1976. This is part of the “Archive Collection” Paul McCartney started...
