As US politics evolve, from deal-making and coalition-building to WWE-style entertainment (with spurts of *actual* violence), seems only natural that high office would be sought, more and more, by second-rate showmen and lunatics.

it's gonna be a whole new music world, without Carla Bley seeding it constantly with ideas that only she could dream up

If you’re in NARAS please consider me on the 1st balloting. I’ve got “Angels Carry Me” in American Roots Song, “Longhair Bluegrass” in Am Roots Performance, and “Bluegrass Vacation” in bluegrass album. More blather on this, and links, on my FB page. Go me.

...planner than they are to the (mostly) mythical beauty of group improvisation-without-boundaries. The appeal of the hero. The producer, the singer, the composer; not the corporation or the community.

...'free' improvisation is a fringe phenom, where music that is meticulously organized in advance to adhere to a composer's intent, or to a record's sound, is all over the place. I believe, with reasons, that audiences are more vulnerable to the myth of the all-controlling...

Push a little farther. If it's true that neither order nor freedom can be pushed to the extreme in music performance - chaos or accident-free plan - then aspiring toward either is bound to fail. And let's not pretend that these 2 goals appear symmetrically in our experience....

And I see I screwed up the thread order, speaking of the fragility of intent

A movie where Shirley Maclaine serially beds Dick Van Dyke, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Gene Kelly, and Dean Martin sounds too good to be true, but is true, and too awful to be good. #capsulereview #yourewelcome

My man, in the grey lady, for no apparent reason, and thanks to LZ for this thoughtful and welcome piece. All I might add is...he sure could sing.

All these years (30) of being/working in Nashville but never living here = a layer of idealization that won’t fade. The vibrations, potentialities, historical ghosts, memories, and insane standards of musicianship: dreamlike! Each time I leave, like now, feels a little melancholy

If you happen to be in Nashville stop by Analog Room tonight at 8 where I’ll be doing 9 whole songs, making the music up as I go, pretty much

Highlights of my Americanafest week are visiting Earl Scruggs’s grave at Springhill Cemetery, performing at a dive with radical young wimmin troubadours, picking in a park w David Grier, and drinking in a quiet bar. No official Americanafest activities have happened yet.

At the bar overhearing young people talk and remembering: young people irritated me when I was young too

Me n my friend are doing a set at the Underdog in E. Nashville at 8:30. If I see you I’ll smile and sing a pretty note for ya

Thanks Vidiots Foundation for that crazy party tonight full of groove, color, dancing, humor, memories of 1984, all 4 Talking Heads, Steve Scales, Lynn Mabry, and Ednah Holt. Sheesh!!