Music and travel – Backstreet Boys, Joni Mitchell, REM…
For Paul Chai, music and travel are inseparable. A photo might trigger a memory, he writes, but the right song will trigger a feeling.
Coat Of Many Colours by Dolly Parton
J Negri's recent Almanac Music story looks at Dolly Parton's Coat Of Many Colours while also looking at grief, vulnerability, singing, persona, tassles and spangles.
For A Short Time by Weddings Parties Anything
Paul Genoni's essay about the much-loved For A Short Time covers a lot of ground: sport in Melbourne (especially during Grand Final Week), the murder of Jill Meagher in 2012, the dedication of Weddings Parties Anything fans. It is a fine piece of writing: evocative, restrained, articulate, considered.
Penny Lane & Strawberry Fields by The Beatles. Story by Tony Wright
School cadet camp, Australia 1967Epiphany, complete with a solo trumpet fanfare, emerged from my transistor radio as I lolled beneath a big old gumtree in a forest, munching Fantales and wearing jungle greens.
By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Jimmy Webb
Almanac Music, a partner site of Stereo Stories, has just published a long essay about the 1968 Jimmy Webb song By The Time I Get To Phoenix, made famous by Glen Campbell.Written by Peter Warrington, the 2000 words - and accompanying maps - take us from the west coast of the US to the song's landmarks: Phoenix, Albuquerque, Oklahoma.It's quite a trip.
Stereo Stories in concert: Word of mouth
It'e easy, especially these days, to blow your own trumpet. But what do other people say about Stereo Stories, particularly the live performances?
Stereo Stories Live at Sunshine Library: books, stories, music, toddlers
Stereo Stories' latest foray onto the stage was a quietly moving one-hour show at Sunshine Library on Saturday afternoon 12 September. Take a look!
Fathers’ Day at Stereo Stories
Fathers and fatherhood are universal themes.Here at Stereo Stories we celebrate Father's Day 2015 not with gifts of angle grinders and barbecues and golf balls but with stories, ten in all.
Stereo Stories Live 2015: A good night for the roses at VU
Stereo Stories' fifth gig in less than four months was at Victoria University's Footscray Park Campus on Thursday evening 30 July. A night of new stories and lovely musicianship.
Stereo Stories Live 2015: loads of fun at Newport Folk Festival
Stereo Stories kept the audience smiling, and often quietly laughing, during its 45 minute bracket at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday 5 July.After opening with the dark tension of State Trooper we lightened up with Before Too Long, Smokie Dawson's tale of teenage love and a deal-breaking Paul Kelly song.