This thing has changed names, and will probably do so a couple more times. But it’s a great space and you really should check it out, friends. It’s across the street from Downtown Spirits, in an building that declares itself … Read the rest

This:

was fun.

In fact, I would say that the Black Rose Acoustic Society is the world’s listeningest room. It is, after all, a subscription-based group dedicated exclusively to the curation and presentation of the best possible music based on … Read the rest

Every once in a while, you meet a lawyer who a owns a weird-looking building in Downtown Colorado Springs. This lawyer still runs his practice out of the building, but that only takes one room. The rest of the building … Read the rest

Every year, sometime in May, I think that I will record John Elwood Cook’s “Memorial Day” and publish it on Memorial Day. This year I made a sincere effort at the last minute. I failed to meet the deadline, but … Read the rest

If you’re playing something and it starts to sound enough like “Shortnin Bread” to remind you of “Shortnin Bread,” then it’s going to wind up at “Shortnin Bread” before long. So you might as well just call it “Shortnin Bread” … Read the rest

Ah, what the heck.

The Words:

The river flows and goes; it’s on unceasingly.
Whatever water is, it’s other than it’s gonna be.
Bubbles on the surface disappear; they don’t for long.
And all the nippers that I … Read the rest

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