Joe Macdonald's Stories & Songs
In the 1920's or 1930's, the famous American folk singer, Pete Seeger, as a teenager, accompanied his father on a trip. His father worked for the Smithsonian Institute and his task was to travel through the south and discover iconic and "undiscovered music" that should be preserved. They left Washington and traveled the Continue Reading
I haven't picked up a guitar in six or seven weeks. My guitar. Sort of a self-imposed exile, I guess. Probably the longest time I haven't strummed a chord since I was sixteen. I've likely written close to a hundred songs. I've played most of the chords at least once. And most of the main ones, thousands of times. In Continue Reading
For whatever reason, with technology now, I listened to Tom Waits' Closing Time this morning. Perhaps for the first time in over twenty years. It used to be one of my favourite records. In retrospect, in my university days, I was a more dedicated student of music than I was to economics and philosophy, my double-major. In Continue Reading