Unexpected Combinations

James Brown.  Luciano Pavarotti.  Soul Brother Number One.  The King of the High C’s.  Big P.  Mr. Please, Please, Please.  Fat Lucy.  Mr. Dynamite.  Big Luciano.  These two fellas couldn’t have been more different, yet more alike.  One is the founding...
Current Mood

Current Mood

The sun is shining and warms my skin.  The grass is green and growing higher daily.   The bluebonnets and other flowers are in full bloom.  The frogs can be heard croaking in the evening.  It’s rainy for a hot second and then everything clears up with only a...

Sip & Sing with Kenya’s Keys

Last time was so much fun that we’re doing it again, and again, and again!  I saw multi-generational families enjoying a lovely Saturday afternoon.  There was singing and playing and a couple of youngsters stepped out boldly and were able to sing a song or two...

Is This the Future for Pianos?

Things in life tend to have an ebb and flow, a high and low.  Well, it looks like we’re on the leading edge of technological innovations.  The player piano, or pianola, was introduced in the early 1900’s, peaked around 1924, and with the rise of the...