This lullaby idea came to me way back in 2013—almost two years before Donald Trump had even announced his candidacy for President.
Tag: Music
I brought my ukulele to the Royal Palace of Antananarivo. The tour guides and souvenir hawkers were curious to hear it and play it. So I let them.
I think Americans don’t really realize how influential and edgy Roxy Music were before they made it onto our American radios. I didn’t.
The Dizzy Brains: Imagine The Strokes with real problems, not just First World Problems.
Here’s a coincidence. One year ago today I hiked down to Indian Garden in the Grand Canyon with my backpacker guitar and wrote a song called I’ve Done the Math.
My friend Moses asked me to find him an American wife. I (eventually) wrote a song about it.
I brought a bass guitar with me to Madagascar. In part because there is a wanna-be ethnomusicologist inside of me who wants to explore Madagascar’s musical traditions in the baritone, tenor, and alto musical registers. But …
Enjoy these songs – all earworms that are triggered repeatedly by my life in Madagascar since I arrived.
In 1998, through some twist of fate, I was given a free upgrade to first class on a flight from Washington DC to Cape Town. That’s about a 23-hour flight; exactly the kind of flight where …
I’m on another running kick, three or four times a week with the dog. It seems to be the only time I can really listen to music. I’ve always found that doing something physical and not-quite-mindless …