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David Crosby
Twitter is great for conversations with people you don’t know and who may be inaccessible because they’re famous, live on another planet, etc. For example, I... Read More
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February
2017
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Books About Music 2016
At the beginning of 2016, I wrote about five of the books about music I read in 2015. Three of them were memoirs (Unfaithful Music and Disappearing... Read More
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January
2017
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The Slippery Disc
In 4th or 5th grade, my grandmother gave me a small drum kit, and I started lessons at the Slippery Disc in Pacific Palisades, CA. Soon,... Read More
05
January
2017
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Somewhere in New Jersey
A music industry veteran named Mike Ragogna “discovered” me at the Sidewalk Café in the East Village, sometime in the mid-1990s. I was playing one... Read More
30
November
2016
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Bluegrass Phase
I developed an interest in bluegrass at the beginning of my freshman year of college. I spent that year at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.,... Read More
12
October
2016
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Tolstoy (The Song)
In honor of Tolstoy’s September 9th birthday, I made a lyric video of the song from my second album: Tolstoy would be 188 if he hadn’t... Read More
09
September
2016
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Reggae Phase
I had a serious reggae phase in approximately 1984-1985, when I was 14-15. It started with Bob Marley, as all reggae phases do. Survival (1976) and... Read More
30
June
2016
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Songwriting Contests
Over Memorial Day weekend, I participated in the New Folk contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival, the annual gathering of songwriters and song appreciators in the hill... Read More
15
June
2016
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Bad Business
I wrote Bad Business – the 8th track on my new album, Lost Soul – in early April 2011. A slow-but-lively waltz in the key of C,... Read More
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April
2016
