I've been sequestered, not pestered, alone with me and a piano for weeks now. For a few hours a day at least. Then it's time to pick...

I used to dream of being on a major label. When I was with The Bobs we dreamed of it, and held out for a few years, waiting for the offer th...

I was watching Janis Joplin in "Festival Express" recently. She was cathartic. I don't think she knew how to hold anything bac...

I promised in my last blog entry, some time back, that I would be working on new piano instrumental pieces. I have been, eagerly, and I'...

A couple of years ago I got a case of pneumonia. NOT the rockin' pneumonia. Just the too-tired-to-get-outta-bed-and-my-lungs-hurt pneumo...

When you start to go bald, you face yourself squarely. You didn't cause it, you didn't earn it. It is not retribution or karma. It i...

Okay, so you've just graduated with a bachelors degree. You studied music theory and composition. You've somehow got to make some mo...

Take a tip from the pros - if you're planning a wedding, get the wedding music that hard-core wedding afficianados get - Music by Gunnar...

I was in the drugstore a few weeks ago, picking up a prescription. While I was waiting a young pharmacist, a guy in his early 20's, was ...

School year started. Man, oh, man, I had no idea the world worked on some kind of schedule. Oh, sure, I was once a kid, I remember the long ...

I was at home with Q last Sunday when the phone rang. It was M, our wife and mother and fun companion. She'd found these beautiful Mongo...

Here's how it all started. My son, Q, is fascinated by all things mechanical. He has a book in the ISpy series in which there's a pi...

Novelty songs. I generally don't like them. Yet I do like humor in music. Obviously. (see " The Bobs " or my family music) Bu...

Some songs just don't go away. Even when it seems like they should. Even when every fibre of my being screams that a song is no good, I ...

A couple years ago I was in New York and went to Little, Brown & Co. to meet, for the first time, my editor for the book of "Old Mr...