“Hold On”, a song by Kansas on day 282 has shown me how I want to do things and how this site / blog will change after this under the overpass thing is done. “Hold On” is a song I’ve done a few times in church. I knew the tune […]Read more »
I Got A Woman, a Ray Charles song, has it’s roots in an old Gospel tune. Funny how that works. I Got A Woman is a song that I heard first on the movie “Mr. Holland’s Opus”. I thought that it was Ray Charles singing the song when I heard […]Read more »
Lasciatemi morire, a song by Claudio Monteverdi, could be considered, by some, to be the very first emo song as the title translates “Let me die”. Lasciatemi morire was one of the first Italian songs I ever learned in college. Jeff Nolte, my second voice teacher, taught me that when […]Read more »
We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder, or “Jacob’s Ladder” is a slave spiritual that saw a birth around 1825. Only 85 days left… Lyrics: We are climbing Jacob’s ladder, We are climbing Jacob’s ladder, We are climbing Jacob’s ladder, Soldiers of the cross. Every round goes higher, higher, Every round goes […]Read more »