The end of summer makes me want to play the blues — one of my favorite genres making up American roots music.
The blues are about both mourning and celebrating loss and change and the end of a beautiful season brings opportunity for both. It’s always about the journey, and that’s the theme of the new album Jude and I recorded for our band Hot Koko — Wayfaring.
Continue Reading For quite a while Jude and I did not know how to answer when people asked what kind of music do you play? We didn’t feel allegiance to any particular style and found songs we loved within many different styles. Then I heard a radio interview about “Americana” music.
Continue ReadingBefore my TEDx “Elderhood Rising” talk (if you didn’t make it to San Francisco to see it live, you can watch the video HERE) I promised to take ChangingAging readers through the new CD that Jude and just finished. Each Tuesday for the next 12 week I will be posting a song from the CD […]
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The funny thing about music is that one note follows another. That note might go up, it might go down, it might stay the same but basically— one note after another. Simple things are, I think, the most difficult to master. I remember the years I was studying Organic Chemistry and Calculus. These subjects […]
Continue ReadingSee HERE and HERE for earlier entries in the Hot KoKo saga. Jude and I came to perfectionism in very different ways. She attended and excelled at St. Paul’s Catholic School where the nuns made it clear that there was ONE right way to do anything and everything. I went the math and science route. […]
Continue ReadingBlogging is, or ought to be, a highly personal medium. This blog is about how age and longevity shape our lives, our families and our communities. These forces also shape personal experience. A couple of years ago I picked up a guitar that I had neglected for nearly twenty years. I’d bought it in the […]
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