I had the good fortune to grow up around musicians. Not the professional kind - aside from a beer and gas gig here and there, I’ve never personally known anyone who got paid to play. The ones I knew simply loved to play and always had instruments to hand, in case a...

If I tug the elastic band of memory until it’s fully stretched out over the almost sixty years of my life, I can just about recall the first music my ears took notice of.  Surely there were tunes that came to me within the dark and watery orb of my mother’s womb.  But...