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My favorite Christmas Carol*
*this year. As someone with seasonal depression, “In the bleak mid-winter” based on the poem by Christina Rossetti from 1872, always gets me “in the feels.” I recently learned this Victorian era poet suffered from “melancholy” (depression) herself. The first and last stanza say so much with an economy of words: “earth as hard as…
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Why the Crickets?
Three weeks ago, I put up a new acoustic album on streaming… “Lost in the Cosmos.” Today, Apple for Artists sent me play stats for the week of Oct. 10-16…0…that is, zero streams on Apple Music. “Crickets,” as they say in the music world. But in its first week, it had 54 streams on Spotify…
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Poem Post: tourist season busker
singing “Cruel to Be Kind” for the 100th time while hot girl jogs by and visible panty line blinds the chaste mind four seconds at a time then back to mine: the by gone rock of ages gone by. And somehow, somehow, it’s part of the Lord’s great design that molecules and miracles refine the…
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“Lost Album” preview mp3s
Here’s two fun, retro-rock songs from my album to be released on streaming Easter weekend called, “They Still Make Sunsets, Don’t They.” It’s a project I began over ten years ago. Hence the “lost album” description. I love this gold-flake background image for the single cover. In 2013 and 2015 I had a handful of…
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Little chapel, big sound
March 1, 2025 held a great evening in the course of my little life. I was super proud to be a part of Kyle Smith’s album release show at a new all ages venue in south Fort Wayne which he helps run. The bill was K. Edward Smith with full band, Sanchez Agency, and Tom…
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The Music of Tom Adamson 