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One of my favorite films when I was a kid was The Wizard of Oz. The music and songs were magic to a younger me, and they still are. When Dorothy and her companions are taken to the witch’s castle, there is music with vocals featuring the witch’s servants, the Winkie Guards, singing, “All we…
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We explored the word “chinwag” on post two using our musical cryptogram. In this installment we worked with the word “demonic” sent in by our good friend Garry Eister, composer of extraordinary music, many featuring the guitar. Thank you Garry.
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Since a bagatelle is a short unpretentious instrumental composition, let’s see if five words will be enough for our mcce. Let’s call our bagatelle a wagatelle in honor of The Chinwag.
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The title, Wag On Weirdos, was how Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma would sometimes close their podcast, The Chinwag. This is post number one for the musical cryptogram composition exploration (mcce) for the Chinwag Bagatelle… Or maybe it could be just- Wagatelle… A bagatelle is a short piece of instrumental music playful in character. A…
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Here’s hoping this post finds everyone sound and listening to good music. And speaking of good music, there’ll be some in Huntsville, Alabama this coming weekend. ( I’m biased I guess.) For those of you who like to peruse artist’s web pages, I have done a makeover to billykemp.com and you may find some new…
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I recently was telling a friend about a music festival I went to in March over in Knoxville, Big Ears. She asked me where the name of the festival came from, and I said I didn’t know. She said maybe it came from that John Prine song, “Sam Stone.” In 2010 Rolling Stone magazine exalted…
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When you go back thirty seven years, the stories may suffer from memory distortion. You wonder, did that really happen? I reminded Terri, when we had played in Chillicothe, Ohio, how she asked me if I would accompany her on an elephant ride that the fair offered.
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Just before 11, we get a text from David. “Where would you like to meet? Maybe we can go to Waffle House near The Opry and break bread, have a hang and chat a bit.” This sounded perfect because it was on our way home, and we hadn’t been to the Opry Waffle House. Would…
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If I had to choose an element that was my grandmother it would be fire. As many of you know, I grew up in a rowhouse on Symington Avenue in Baltimore during the 1960s. I’ve always counted myself lucky to have grown up in a home that had an extended family, having my parents as…
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When we got home I found out that a song I had co-written with Jeni Hankins, “Mr. Wilson, the Stonecutter,” had been chosen to be included in a radio show titled, The Place I Can’t Forget, for Jon Stein’s Hootenanny Cafe.
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