The singularly talented music(ians) scattered over the world, hot chocolate on cold days, the jazz club o' the century, I'm gonna see the world play to faces new and enjoy a slow song on vibrating strings. Inset artwork by Loren Witcher
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..."
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Alex Becrelis, Tripping Lily, Chris Thile (and the How to Grow a Band), James Taylor, Jerry Douglas Band, Bob Dylan, Nickel Creek, Casey Driessen, Don Steinberg, Wisechild, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, J.S. Bach, Joshua Bell, Radiohead, Wilco, The Byrds, Debussy, White Stripes, Gershwin, The Band, Grateful Dead, Paul Simon, The Beatles, Coldplay, Bill Monroe, Hot Rize, Tim O'Brien, Molly O'Brien, John Cowan, Bela Fleck (and the Flecktones), Hamilton De Holanda, Sierra Hull, Tony Rice, Travis Burch, Sean Watkins, The Duhks, Mike Marshall, Sam Bush, Red House Painters, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Fred Astaire, Somtymes Why, Silverchair, Beck, Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Weather Report, The Shaggs, Chicago, Michael Franks, Ramsey Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Taylor, Steely Dan, The Strokes, Son Volt, Switchfoot, Micheal Buble, Hendrix, Holst, Stringdusters, Darol Anger, Edgar Meyer, Five for Fighting, Randy Newman, C.S.N.(Y), the Police, Darell Scott, The Waybacks, Stuart Duncan, Louis Armstrong, them Colorfools, The How To Grow a Band, Flat and Scruggs, Goose Creek Symphony, Old School Freight Train, Peter Salett, Dan Fogelberg, Simon and Garfunkel, The Jayhawks, Golden Smog, Yonder Mountain String Band, Glen Phillips, Republic of Strings, David Grisman, Alison Krauss, Old Crow Medicine Show, Calexico, Sufjan Stevens, Hem, Tony Rice, Emmylou Harris, Jack Johnson, Jonny Cash, My Dear Friends...and many many more.
Conan's hair...
The Bible, The Princess and the Goblin, The Lord of the Rings, The Dubliners, Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Inner Game of Music, Then There Were None, Waverley, Much Ado About Nothing, (anything by C.S. Lewis), What Happened at Midnight (Hardy Boys), Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Little Women, Daisy Miller, Paradise Lost, Beowulf, The order of things, The Great Gatsby, a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius...
"...the way to the worlds end, the land of longing, the breaking and blessing of hearts." Aho you you traveler of this secret road!