Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. Johnson’s shadowy and poorly documented life and death at age 27 have given rise …
Recently I met a new artist that said he was only interested in producing “good” music. I shared with him that I thought the term “good” was very relative. How many times have we heard people say that the old music is objectively better than the new music. Remember that there is nothing objective about …
I have a very close friend that is now 75 years old, Dallas Frazier. We attend church together and I run into him often at coffee shops because we live in the same town. He is probably one of the most non-assuming and humble guys I know. Most of his neighbors know him as a …
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water …
Hip-hop artist Kanye West announced at a Thursday night concert in California that he did not vote in the presidential election, but if he had, he would have voted for Donald Trump. “I told y’all I didn’t vote, right?” Kanye said, standing on the floating stage he uses on his Saint Pablo tour. “But if …