Signing on

Today is my initial leap into blogdom with a half baked idea to start something related to music. Its always been an interest of mine and for 7 years prior to coming here I hosted a folk/acoustic radio show on a college station in Indiana. OK, big yawn but it was a great opportunity to get to know some of the best and most talented people in the music world. People who are dedicated to their music. Often with day jobs to support their work. Struggling but enjoying driving half way across the country to play to a living room full of neighbors. Or a small bar full of drinkers who only half listen. Coffeehouses where students barely noticed what they were missing.

Names like Richard Shindell, Ellis Paul, James Keelaghan, Jeffrey Foucault....Lucy Kapansky, Dar Williams....so many. They are all still out there and occasionally from my outpost here northwest of Chicago I get to hear them as they past through the Windy City on their way.

But this has also opened up opportunities to hear new groups. Local bands, alternative, indie groups...and others doing much them same thing in one or another genre of music. If time permits and the opportunity presents itself I'd love to find a way to blend all of this together in some kind of listening format. Not just what I write but what I would share with you in the music itself. Time will tell. Perhaps this blog will go nowhere. Or maybe it will take off.

Reflection from the Metra station. 

On the steps of the Newberry Library in December.