26 June - This Week's Commute

M: Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
T: Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
W: Frank Zappa - Tinseltown Rebellion
F: R.E.M. - Green

19 June - This Week's Commute

M: U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
T: ‘Til Tuesday - Welcome Home
W: The Pretenders - The Singles
Th: Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
F: Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark

17 June - Dream On

In a dream this past Sunday night, I was asked to describe to a class of music students what it was like to be a songwriter. Not how it's done, or what my process was, but what it meant. Here's what I told them.

It's called songwriting because it's a form of communication, and one of the most intimate. What songwriters do is lay bare our souls so that we might touch someone else's.

Yes. I'm way more cool in my dreams than I am in real life.

12 June - This Week's Commute

M: R.E.M. - Up

T: Berlin - Pleasure Victim

W: Garbage - Bleed Like Me

F: Thelonious Monk - Monk

5 June - Commuting Again

Well, since this was my first full week back in the office, I suppose it's time to start this little feature up again.

THIS WEEK'S COMMUTE
M: Paul McCartney - Run Devil Run
T: Sloan - The Double Cross
W: The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
F: Keb' Mo' - Just Like You