TONIGHT WILL BE FINE by LEONARD COHEN. Story by Luke Davies.
Listening to most music has been so much harder for me since the stroke and I had not been keen on revisiting older recordings and demos of ideas stashed away on various hard drives.
Listening to most music has been so much harder for me since the stroke and I had not been keen on revisiting older recordings and demos of ideas stashed away on various hard drives.
No sending a link on your phone back then. It took time and dedication to record a LP to a tape for one of your mates.
Years later I would come to see and hear what a talent Broderick Smith was, mixing various music styles into his sound, always with some nice blues influenced harmonica licks thrown in.
Every now and then thereās a song that comes along at a time in your life when youāre most ready to respond to it.
Christmas songs and carols are often a reminder of the ideal family experience, but that is not the case for many.
I had been making instruments from reclaimed objects for a few years by then and came up with the mad idea of getting a band together to play them. I had to make a few more instruments often with bits sourced from op shops and garage sales.
I came across a song that I hadn't listened to for ages, a song that when I first heard it, was a real life changing moment.
So with the help of the University of YouTube my new music adventure began.
It was a bit of an eye and ear opener. Not that I havenāt heard some of those Springsteen songs before, but I wasnāt really listening at the time.
Getting my driving licence back was tedious and a bit of an exercise in hoop jumping. But the Marcia Hines tape in the old car was a treat.