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Soundtrack - Observations on Travel
I am amazed at the number of people who can go through the world and somehow remain oblivious to their surroundings. I feel sorry for them. This morning, I awoke early, as I almost always do. Being an early riser on a tour bus can be a bit of a trial.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:05 PM
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Summer musings redux...
For whatever reason, I am finding it harder and harder to write something for this blog.Maybe it’s the summer. I have been traveling again - Europe, various parts of America, and unusually for me, Newfoundland. That always gets me thinking. I have
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Monday, August 17, 2009 4:57 PM
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Listen to the radio…
During the current GBS hiatus I have spent a lot of time in the GB studio and elsewhere, recording music, but also thinking about it a lot.I recently heard a radio documentary, (or acoustic film as he would have it), by St. Johnsman and producer Chris
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:14 AM
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French Lessons
North America doesn’t produce a lot of ‘regional’ success stories anymore, as least as far as the music business is concerned. Most places on the continent are pretty homogenous these days, at least culturally. The fact that just a handful
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:56 PM
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Media Relations 1001
A series of interviews last week got me thinking about a few of the ancillary aspects of this job.Doing interviews is one of the weird sidelines being a touring musician requires. There is no choice, really. Any band needs every ounce of publicity it
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:20 AM
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Fiddle vs. Accordion, a Digression
During the cruise just past I was waiting with a crowd of other losers, er, tourists, at the Hemmingway House in Key West, (and to quote Sean Cullen, ‘what a fucking rip-off’), when one of the passengers buttonholed me on the street
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:45 PM
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One Year Ends... (A New Year's Thoughts)
And thus ends another year, slowly and quietly, and here in Newfoundland, a bit on the chilly side. No one is in much of a hurry around here in the post Christmas hangover, - January is a slow month in St. John’s. And thus my attempts to update
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:38 PM
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