The Condo People
When you’re coming off of Ellington Parkway down near Spring Street, and you’re at the intersection with Main Street looking …
East of Normal
It’s Just a Damn Record
Recording studios are like spas: soothing, ambient lighting, couches, warm porous walls that soak up sound, and lounges stocked with …
Stella & Vicky
Your first guitar is like your first kiss, your first date, your first bike, the first record you really loved. …
Playgrounds of the Imagination
Song sung blue, everybody knows one Song sung blue, every garden grows one That's the sound of …
United, but Disconnected …
I pick my son up from the Nashville School of the Arts at 3 PM every weekday. Sometimes I have …
EAST of NORMAL
Has it really been almost sixteen years now? Sixteen years since the epoch of blue rooftops? When Mother Nature bounced …
It Just Doesn’t Matter
The other day a friend of mine posted on his Facebook page, “I am happy for my successful friends! I …
But I’m HUGE in Sweden
Greetings from Pitea, Sweden, an hour south of the Arctic Circle. It’s not warm. But it could be worse. Being …
On Second Thought …
This is not the original column I submitted for this issue. And thank God. I came to my senses just …