Play, Play, Play the Blues

Play, Play, Play the Blues

This is an archive post ~ originally published May 4, 2017 and updated in 2018 When I’m trying to teach … or learn … anything – it always helps me to have a song.  This is one I wrote for a workshop on the Blues. The way we did this is that...
The Hidden Happiness of the Blues

The Hidden Happiness of the Blues

The Blues.  Sad music.  Old guys on porches playing guitars. Someone done me wrong.  My baby done left me. But here’s the thing. What happens when we can’t express these things – the very things that connect us as human beings?  When we can’t express, it gets...
Blues is language

Blues is language

What do you think ‘the Blues’ is? It’s a style of music, for sure. You could even call it a mode of expression. I was always drawn to music that sounded ‘Bluesy,’ but I didn’t know what ‘the BLUES’ was ‘til I started playing the harp and...
Blues is a Lingua Franca

Blues is a Lingua Franca

This is an archive post ~ originally published May. 6, 2017 and updated in 2018 What if there was a language you could learn that let you speak – and listen –  fluently with anyone in the world, regardless of their language? “Lingua Franca ~ ˌliNGɡwə...

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