No one can remember when the street lights last worked. Now the corner is only lit by the garish glow from the 24-hour laundromat and Mr. Chow's Chinese neon across the street. I park in front of the heavily shuttered...
blues
Six Silver Strings
"A Blues song full of desire ..."
Six silver strings, Thick black fingers with pink nails, pull and hammer them into sound A mournful cry of lonely nothing tearful dreamscape, An eternal cry of the trains, Don’t ya hear me calling pretty baby? In a chord of...
Piano Blues Part 4
"A previous romance, history, a beginning, a memory of love..."
Pinetop knew eternity, The power of stopping time. Hold yourself now, And when I say get it, You get it! The piano rattles, From New Orleans to Mexico, Your city blues make dancing girls, and shots, And smoke filled bars,...
Stones In My Passway
"With a pretty girl, listening to the Stones"
Stones in the night (’68) As white as snow, As black as coal, Tunes to pacify, and sanctify Your shattered, lonely, broken soul. The rattle of guitars, Jig saw blues. A girl in the doorway, Blue eyed oblivion, The harp...
The Bassist After The Breakup
"I wasn't really out to get over it, but I was getting over it."
My fingers wrapped carefully around the long stem of my glass of chilled white wine, I stared into the cool liquid as if it could reveal my future. What I really wanted it to do was hide my past, but...
Cum On Baby (Take me to Chicago 1962)
"Fantasy takes me back to the Chicago blues and a special dancer."
Alright, I've been playing you people...I'm sorry, but that is just the way it is. I've been taking the easy way out, like the song says. I've been writing about stuff that happened in my sordid past, not taking into...