An excerpt from As a Shaman Shakes a Tambourine: The Story Behind The Song, In Zechariah’s Kitchen I was raised in the Big Muddy badlands of southern Saskatchewan, in an old Boler trailer, by my Aunt Aurora, who was a pagan, a Wiccan, a witch, choose […]
In the late summer of 2000, I was in Reading, England, for an astrology conference when I noticed, in the back pages of MOJO, that Dylan was playing in Dublin. I’ve been an avowed ‘bobcat’ since, well, NASHVILLE SKYLINE. So […]
I’m listening to Bobby Bare’s version of “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan”, off THE MOON IS BLUE album, and, in the cracked rear view mirror of my memory, it takes me back to the first time I heard Bobby Bare’s […]
introduction I was in Reno, sitting in a bar, sucking back a beer – not my first of the day – and watching an old man shuffle along, emptying ash trays. He’d had a choice, I surmised, about two decades […]
