Category: Thoughts on Music
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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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My Via Chicago
Every guitar has a story. “Tell me about that guitar, Tom,” asked fellow guitarist friend Bill Eyster, between songs at a friend’s party/gig the other night. “What kind is it?” I gave him some details on its provenance, Epiphone, mid-range price, a little over 20 years old…that I always liked its warm tone. But what…
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God Only Knows -AS&AF S3 Ep. 3
Here is episode 3 guest Mike and I singing “If I stand” by Rich Mullins. This performance was filmed in 2019. Mike started playing drums with me and Daniel for M.Cotu in 1997. But this performance was the first time we sang together. Like so many of our peers who grew up in the 80s…
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Star Day
“I think people should all go outside tonight and look at the stars, its the perfect weather for it…this could be a holiday, star-day.” Thus spoke a violin student of mine one June 1st a number of years ago. At the time, Lauren, was 10 years old, bright eyed, full of humor, and very talented…
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Good King Wenceslas (~10 years on)
Tom Adamson and the Texarkana Two – “Good King Wenceslas” Click this link. “It’s still Christmas!” This was the common refrain of Jarod Pearson of St. Agnes’ parish in Cowan, Tennessee, each year after Dec. 25. It was something I admired in him, a gentle application of catholic tradition to a southern, Anglican spirituality. The…
The Music of Tom Adamson 