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Occasional musings on the songwriting life

The Restless Desire to Make Art 

Monday, July 25
Joshua Tree
Hello friends,

Last night I started reading Louise Glück's "Proofs and Theories -  Essays on Poetry." Of the many books we own of writers writing about writing, "Proofs and Theories," a collection of  her short essays and talks, is fast becoming one of my favorites. Most of you know the character of my songwriting and poetry and are creative spirits yourselves, so you will know immediately why I was compelled to share this with you. Seeing evidence of the universality of the…Read more

07/25/2016

in POETRY

RABBIT HOLES 

Dear Friends, 
  
In March of 2012, I wrote a song called “Rabbit Holes” because I’m interested in the perennial questions we can’t seem to answer:  How did the universe begin, what’s it made of, is there a God? I find myself amused at our journey through the millennia in search of the answers to these persistent existential questions and I find that I am particularly interested in the turn this query took about 500 years ago with the advent of the scientific method. 
  
I guess all of this was kicked off in my…

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01/27/2016

DOING THE MATH 

I'm happy to announce that this week Amazon rates "Raised in the Shadow", my life in 25 poems, as #607,825 on their best-seller list. Last week it was rated #3,225,478. For those of you who don't have a pencil and paper handy, that's a jump of 2,617,653 places. Wow! How DO they figure these things? I have no clue, and, after some google-sleuthing, I have come to the conclusion that neither does anyone else.  

By the way, this collection of 25 poems, written over the course of the year I turned 50, is…

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01/04/2016

in POETRY

Rags and Bones to perform at California Leonard Cohen Tributes 


"If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery."      
         
-Leonard Cohen



September 21 is Leonard Cohen's birthday. He will be 80. I am thrilled and honored to be playing at two tribute shows this month. This Sunday I'll be at SOhO in Santa Barbara at 7:30 pm along with a fine group of my fellow singer-songwriters.

Each of us will perform two of his songs. I have chosen The Traitor…

09/16/2014

in Performances

Jerry Jeff, Todd Snyder and Jerome Lawrence 

“They say a neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.” – Jerome Lawrence

I would add that a writer is the one who can no longer afford the rent. Know what I mean? Therapy gets pretty expensive and they can’t fix the broken parts anyway. Might as well write about it. One way or another you end up finding it in your songs or your novel, or your journal. Stuff you didn’t mean to be writing about but, shit…

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06/28/2014

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