Up on a deck overlooking a river in Idaho with a Music Teacher/theologian/philosopher
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Break Even
my own daughter Elizabeth arranged this for a CSU a Capella group. It’s corny to brag, but I can hardly stand it – it’s so good.
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With a Little Help from Friends: “Plurality, Play, and Authenticity in the Most Influential Album Ever”
That’s a long title for some fun romping around on a 50th Anniversary
SIDE A: The concept, and what the Trinity has to do with it:
SIDE B: The personalities, and what we might have to do with it:
SIDE C: finishing up with the The Best Song From the Most Influential Album of All Time by the Best Band of All time:
“Baby We Were Born (again) to Run…”
Finally saw Bruce.
A couple decades late because a prime regret of my time in New Jersey in the early 90s was never seeing him live. Another week late because Maundy Thursday would have been even better.
He is not only a master storyteller, but a preacher; fearless in the face of the dark. His anthems starkly conjure, then defy, life’s hardships with astonishingly gritty playing and singing. He took us down poignantly detailed roads peculiarly blue-collar but also somehow universal; the congregation finally joining in choruses that moved beyond lyrics to simple sung affirmations. He was all I had been told: one of the greatest showmen ever.