Music Monday: Livin’ Thing
I’ve always enjoyed ELO, and consider Jeff Lynne to be a talented songwriter and producer. He is usually a pretty straight-up writer, and doesn’t tend to go in for a lot of jazzy chords...
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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....
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...
