I confess, I was naive. I wanted to affiliate with a streaming service that I felt okay about, both for my own listening and for streaming my music. My music is available on lots of steaming sites but Spotify was the lingua franca of the bunch. I began my relationship…
“The Illustrated Man” was written across decades. I think I wrote the lyrics in the late 70s. At the time I tried repeatedly to write the music for it but nothing clicked, so I just set it aside, neatly typed, for nearly 30 years. Finally, in the early-aughts, it came…
What does the road offer? Solitude? Isolation? Alienation? Loneliness? Peace? All of the above?
I wanted to make a record that would be a bit of a retrospective, of songs of mine that I’ve always wanted to record, and some covers that defined a few moments of my music life.
Steve Klingaman’s 2021 LP release
Shoshin – Beginner’s Mind Shoshin is a Zen Buddhist concept introduced to me by Louis Patler, one of my teachers in graduate school. It means beginner’s mind. Beginner’s mind is the mental state of being open, receptive, eager, unafraid of failure, willingly naïve, devoid of preconceptions. Shunryu Suzuki writes in…