There's a novelist whose invention and soul and style I am so in love with: Haruki Murakami. His is the kind of writing that I'd lik...

Top ZZzzs, Listen up! Want a record that will put you to sleep, but never drive you crazy? The absolute best lullaby music, chosen by our ...

The Listening Years... Up until February of 1964 (when I was 7), music just didn't really mean much to me. On that particular night, we...

A recent search on Youtube unearthed some interesting uses for my music. None of them with my blessing, so don't think I had anything t...

"It's also a great Axe grinder!" Here's my idea. Some kind of huge pedal-powered flywheel. I mean huge. 6 feet in diamet...

Did I say I never get to watch movies? Well, not entirely true. I love movies so much that I generally won't watch them if I can't a...

We've been watching a lot of TV lately. Well, not TV, not stuff that comes on a cable or over the airwaves, but shows we're renting ...

Goodbye, little crow... On the ides of May, I found the little crow dead. The parents had already gotten the news, and though they still hu...

I've had a few days of being hectored and cawed at by nervous, anxious parental crows. Their fledgling disappeared the day after it was ...

This morning there's a pair of crows cawing raucously all around my studio. Here's why... As I was about to open the door to my bac...

Early on (like, when I was 10 years old) I had a moral judgment against 45 singles. They were a ripoff (LPs had a much better song-per-dolla...

Don't know why this crossed my mind, or if it's even true, but it seems to me that music doesn't smell. For such a powerful, vis...

What do kids' musicians listen to when we're not on the job? Do we worship the Wiggles? Boogie down to some Barney? Relax to Raffi?...

I saw the most beautiful film the other week. It's called "Touch the Sound" , about the soulful and amazing percussionist Evel...

Before I saw/heard the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show along with the rest of America in 1964, music was not a passion of mine. There were n...