I just read a 2011 interview with Bob about a show of his paintings that went up in Europe somewhere.  For opinions of Dylan, the painter, I asked two of my painter buddies who agreed: As a painter, Dylan is a fine songwriter.  I’ve excerpted and commented on Bob’s answers,…

Twice in the early 90s, I went to the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY for a songwriting workshop with Rosanne Cash. It was a non-juried event, meaning the first dozen people to call in their credit cards got to spend five days sitting in a circle, trying our stuff out…

All that lies about us is foreign to us yet here we are, come together, and closer will we come. In the early sixties growing up, I spent a good deal of time imagining my little suburban neighborhood three hundred years earlier when only animals and indigenous people populated the…

Musically, I must tilt my felt-tipped mallet to Robert Plant and Allison Kraus in the most unlikely pairing that, with the exception of two or three dirge-like songs, is brilliantly executed. Raising Sand is the lp and there are some stunning things to listen for, including a general compatibility that…

It seems to me on first listen anyway like this is what John Lennon would be writing, singing, playing guitar and arranging, if he were around. I highly recommend this CD.

A very simple, very beautiful story is told in this hour long video made up mostly of 16 millimeter film shot by Richard Proenneke, who left a mind-numbing assembly line job after almost losing his eyesight, and built, by hand, with no power other than his own, a simple, one-room…

Bruce Fleming | September 12, 2006 The Navy and Marine Corps encourage some of the more talented students at the Naval Academy to enroll in masters’ degree courses that overlap and then extend beyond their work at the Naval Academy. A semester after their graduation from USNA, they go to…