Shelter In Saturday Songs & Rhythms (Or Not)
October 21, 2023In an attempt to escape, or at least push aside for a short while, the heinous news of the nowadays, I went for another musical broad-stroke to lighten the load just a bit and focus…
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Noonish Saturday With Annie — News ‘Under Pressure’
October 14, 2023High noon Saturday here in California’s Central Valley — autumn as autumn gets. Into a news-cycle dive this morning, I ran out of options, so I decided to go with Annie Lennox, along with her…
Sunday Serenade — Song-Shelter Despite ‘Bad News On The Doorstep’
October 8, 2023Summer sense in early autumn this late-afternoon Sunday here in California’s Central Valley — the temperature now just a little under a hundred degrees, the outside air heavy with heat, creating colors seemingly scraped from…
Jimmy Buffett: RIP — ‘Stepped On A Pop Top’
September 2, 2023Another musical death was announced today — Jimmy Buffett has died at 76. And apparently, he was way-more than a wonderful songwriter and lifestyle persona: Beyond the artistic whimsical, however, in that sense of being…
Shelter In The ‘Shine’
August 15, 2023Escape the relentless horrors of the news business this evening for a space, and enjoy three songs seemingly intermingled together in time. Or at least the following particular-appointed music is shaped as in a clock’s…
Sunday Serenade: Shelter Music For ‘Dangerous Heat’
July 23, 2023Quietly roasting this Sunday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley — we’re just at triple digits without much movable breeze to stir the heat away or at minimum create a non-searing glaze to the air…
Sunday Serenade: Enigma Moment
June 4, 2023Another attempted swipe against reality this Sunday afternoon with a serenade of some sort of sound — today it’s music in a reflection of our conundrum made up nowadays that’s really not a mystery nor…
Sixty Years Later — New Photographs Of The Young Beatles
June 3, 2023Paul McCartney uncovered some photos he’d taken long, long ago: Although this bit of news might be old hat already (it was first revealed in January this year), McCartney’s photographs will be on display at…
Tina Turner RIP
May 24, 2023Multi-whammy news day as politics got sadly tapped to the back burner by the death of a musical icon — all over the InterWebs cycle: Tina Turner passes at 83. She carried some talented weight…
Sunday Serenade: Shelter In The Sound Of Summer’s Poetry
April 23, 2023And some songs, too, celebrating all kinds of shit that occurs during those deep-trench days of summer — here in California’s Central Valley, backs of necks get way-way-worse than dirty and gritty. Yesterday the first…