800 stories
The odometer on our Wordpress dashboard quietly ticked over to 800 stories last week.
Book review: Full Coverage by Samuel J Fell
Here’s a book about music writing that ticks a lot of boxes.
OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES by PAUL KELLY and THE MESSENGERS. Story by Vin M.
We have been looking at other people’s houses. Not like the characters – a cleaner and her child – in Paul Kelly’s 1992 song. No, not like that at all.
A genesis tale. Story by Vin M
You don’t have to agree on everything, you don’t have to like the same bands, or like the same bands as much, but there is a bond, a thread.
700 reflections. Vin M.
Whether it be websites or concerts, radio or books or podcasts, there is no shortage of personal stories about the songs that shape our lives.
Hungarian Dance No 5 by Brahms. Poem by Vin M
Hope plays with with The Stiletto Sisters, The Persephone Project, My Friend The Chocolate Cake and many others.
WHERE DREAMS GO TO DIE by JOHN GRANT Story by Vin M
Nearly all the bands are new to me. The Decembrists. Pond. Sons Of Bill. Natalie Prass. Africa Express. Most of the songs are kind to my ears. And then, the final track.
BLACK RAT by BIG MAMA THORNTON. Story by VM
The long essays in the music editions were lessons in quality journalism. How to take your time, set a scene, evoke a place, draw a character, tell a fine story. And the CDs took me to places I’ll never see.
Reading Cohen on Christmas morning. Poem by Vin M
Reading Cohen on Christmas morning/Poems of love and loss and yearning
SOME OF SHELLY’S BLUES by MICHAEL NESMITH. Story by Vin M
The former Monkee had played rather grander venues, but he seemed pretty comfortable up there on the graduation stage. I was just a few rows from the front. Stage right, near the guitarist, Al Perkins.