Innocent Man by Billy Joel. Story by Cher Finver, with The Stereo Stories Band
Listen to Cher Finver of Nevada narrate her story about Innocent Man, backed by The Stereo Stories Band.
SMOOCHIE by FATHER JOHN MISTY. Story by Kate Foulds.
Here and now, a deer disappears over the distant mound. Three ducks peacefully paddle, winding their way ahead of the flowing waterfall gently calling me towards the steep terrain of my nightmares.
LAST TRAIN TO CLARKESVILLE by THE MONKEES. Story by Victoria Wells
Occasionally the tensions in the house would boil over. Our mother would pick a fight over the dinner. Our father would try his best to be diplomatic, interpreting for each of the women as to what they may have meant. We would slink away, hiding in favourite places until things had simmered down.
YOU CAN STILL BE FREE by SAVAGE GARDEN Story by Linda M Crate
I am free to find new horizons and make them mine. I am more than my bullies ever imagined and becoming more with each passing day. I refuse to let the past define me.
FROM THE BEGINNING by EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Story by Laura Grace Weldon
While the song plays I remember being a wispy 14-year-old who bought batik scarves from the forbidden head shop in town. I twisted them into halter tops which I wore under more demure shirts until I was safely out of the house.
HEROES by DAVID BOWIE Fiction by Jeff Dowsing
As a Bowie aficionado Jack couldn’t hold a candle to Dennis, but this track burns deep at the best of times, and obliterates him in the worst. Such as now.
DRIVE ALL NIGHT by GLEN HANSARD Story by Vin Maskell
I’d drive all night with my brother if I could. It would be escapism of a sort but also a rare chance to spend time, a long time, together. We’d pack sandwiches and snacks and drinks. Chocolate. A football. Some of Peter’s surfboards.
POOR BOY BY SPLIT ENZ Story by Hugh Jones
Here in my city I’m fretting after my father, lost in the aftermath of a stroke and the creeping invasion of inoperable cancer.
Steal Away To Jesus by the International Harvester Male Chorus. Story by David Oke.
David Oke Belmont, Geelong; November 1998 It was a rite of passage to spend a weekend with Dad as we travelled on a McHarrys coach from Geelong to a country Victorian destination with the International Harvester Choir.
Catch My Disease by Ben Lee. Story by Rick Kane.
Rick Kane Perth, April 2006 Someone asked, “Where’s the music?” This would be the cathartic moment. This would be where the pain flowed out as the love poured in.