Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “Lucky’s Cafe”
“Lucky’s Café” is a barroom lament about looking for love in all the wrong places.
Making ROOTS AND BRANCHES: “The Illustrated Man”
“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 …