Essence of Blues

There are few segments of audio retail more bastardized than Christian contemporary music. It’s like contemporary audio retail, but simpler, strung out and five years late. Blues from fishbowl memories. And I mean, “strung out,” in the worst of ways. And, at least, to me. But take for example, Picture of Jesus, by Ben Harper [...]

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4 years ago, I dove deep into The Blues in order to write a book of blues, or two. And about on a third. But life has been changing rapidly.  And a trip to the doctor’s indicated I got the blues. Stretched too thin. Not takin’ good enough care of myself Not exercising enough Adjusting [...]

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A highly tantalizing holiday taken to writing took its typical course… behind closed doors windows drawn and close my computer my thoughts. What did I accomplish? viewed season two of my second favorite television show watched a few movies The good news was, during all that watching, closed-off and isolated, those blues thoughts got time [...]

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And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. – Hamlet. Act 1. Scene 1. (Shakespeare) I never read Shakespeare. At least I never read them all. I read Julius Caesar a couple times. And Romeo & Juliet. But there’s this stack of stuff I’ve been meaning to read. The stack’s pretty [...]

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So that damned “Gatorade Has Evolved” song for the Gatorade G commercials that came out for the 2010 NBA playoffs got in my head and wouldn’t leave. You know the commercial… “If you wanna revolution the only solution:  evolve. You gotta evolve.” Gatorade Revolution / Evolve Commercial – 2010 The damned song won’t get out [...]

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