In no particular order: Joao Gilberto, Willie Nelson, JS Bach, Thelonius Monk, West African & Afro Caribbean, Elis Regina, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Tom Jobim, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Louis Armstrong, Les Negresses Vertes, The Clash, Violent Femmes, Edith Piaf, Django Reinhardt, The Jazz Crusaders, Flamenco, Blues, Country-Western, crying babies, moaning lovers, screaming madmen...
We are surrounded on three sides by the hope of freedom, but also the dangers of the deep.... From here we can contemplate and dream, retreat if we must, to the strength of good tradition, the solid mainland...
We can also jump in and swim, set sail, and sometimes drown in the cosmic undertow..... the musician as amorous adventurer, as scientist seeker of primal sound, as prophet eking out the song of God; as heroic cultural diplomat, as crab-walking poet-fool and crank, the musician as child playing in the waves with his friends....
Do good things. Think good thoughts. Thrive in adversity...
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