by Charles Norman | May 1, 2019 | Song of the Day
Reborn by the Sunshine’s ‘Who I Am’ is honest country music. The modifier should remain unspoken; if it isn’t honest, it isn’t country. But these days the two words are connected by an ever-fraying bit of binders twine. I’m not...
by Charles Norman | Apr 29, 2019 | Song of the Day
All at once Jukes understood he would have to go.’Do you think she may?’ he screamed.But the wind devoured the reply, out of which Jukes heard only the one word, pronounced with great energy ‘…Always…’– from Typhoon, by Joseph...
by Charles Norman | Apr 27, 2019 | Song of the Day
From where I stood I watched them recede in the frame of the roadway, between the Moorish house and the Lombardy poplar. Then the little sedan boldly swung past the front truck and, free at last, spurted up the shining road, which one could make out narrowing to a...
by Charles Norman | Apr 25, 2019 | Off the Wall
And you may find yourself in a beautiful houseWith a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourselfWell, how did I get here?– Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime My father’s father, a lineman for the county who bought the farm years before I was recorded and...
by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2019 | Song of the Day
‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’ — from The Velveteen...
