This blog has several different sections and I have different purposes in mind when I write for...
folk-music
In the late 1940s, Dick Blakeslee, then a student at the University of Chicago, wrote Passing Through,...
Planxty in concert (credit: Gumbo Pages) Planxty was one of the first of the Irish “supergroups,” which...
Living in the Country (hear the mp4 here) is Pete Seeger‘s amazing 12-string guitar instrumental. Its melody...
John Martyn, Sweet Little Mysteries cover art (credit: Dave Exton’s Web Site) From Folk & Blues: An...
Israel holds a deep place in the Jewish psyche. But few non-Israeli songwriters seem to write about...
Why would I have any interest in this old war horse of a song? The lyrics (such...
As someone who suffered from parental child abuse and who is the father of a 2 year-old...
