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About Me

Reborn somehow on a windswept night somehwere in the 1960's when warm rain fell upon this earth in little Cedar Grove. Me, standing upon symbolic balcony looking out with spiritual eyes upon historical parking lot, Candy Store, St. Catherine's of Siena Church and Pompton Avenue as mystical traffic streamed by, I stood in wide eyed, naked wonder.......... Some kind of deperately lonely, unfathomable longing for things romantic and transcendant came over me and a longing for deliverence from abstract, negative forces I had no control over ....................... I rode in on a tumultuous energy not of my own making and spent the first twenty years of my life asking "WHAAAAAAAAAATTT????????????"................ Had to learn to navigate a torrent of arbitrary rules, regulations and log jams, meteor showers, interminable droughts, cruelty, Beatlemania, impossible dreams and mind numbing growing pains............................ fighting for my life from within the fiery furnace, wrestling with angels, staggering through mine fields, holding on to some kind of secret truth and hoping to survive long enough to tell it to the world ...............Now what? How do I crack the code of INFORMATION OVERLOAD, a Sunami that has engulfed humankind. Can a whisper of Truth upset the Apple Cart of Disinformation and Falsehood here upon Planet Earth or are we doomed to an irreverseable fate? Ancient inscriptions written upon the walls of my heart and windows of my soul cry out for translation. What else to do but testify to my story??????? I was dying of thirst so I came in from the Wilderness. Hope you can hear me through the din.....................

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/13/2006
Band Website: EZFolk.com/audio/bands/1679/
Band Members: Steve Sherry. "California Anthem," "Only Love Can Redeem You Now," "Please Do Not Be" and "If Love Itself Came Walking" recorded at Seven South in Santa Barbara. Keyboards added and remixed at Shiur Audio in Passaic, New Jersey.
Influences: The Beatles - Bob Dylan - Gordon Lightfoot
Sounds Like: Dylan rocked my world the first time I heard "Positively 4th St." Soon after, "A Hard Rains Gonna Fall" sucked me through some kind of artisitc/spiritual vortex. When I first heard "If You Could Read My Mind" by Lightfoot, I thought, "nobody, but nobody could write a song like that without having incredible depth. I was right. How about Leonard Cohen? How many songwriter/poets actually stand for something? Read some of his poetry and you'll know what I mean.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Beginning of Wisdom

In these perilous times you must dig deep and make sure that you arrive at your conclusions through personal trial and error and not just someone else's agenda There are people in this w...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:26:00 PST

Leonard Cohen and me

It was back in the '70's when I lived with a bunch of hippies and students in Boston. At the time I was reading "Energy of Slaves," one of my favorite books of poetry..... That's where I got th...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:57:00 PST

I Gaze Across

I gaze across the yard to the garden where poets with twisted smiles hang upon barbed wire Lost loves, their faces etched by time, leave notes at my door explaining the reasons they...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Thu, 29 May 2008 08:29:00 PST

Songwriter/poet

The poet songwriter with guitar on his back perambulates along Broadway with visions that can change the world....... Dreams that refuse to die pursue him like avenging angels demanding ...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:50:00 PST

Conversation With The Big Guy

So, I'm sitting on my bed one day and become aware of His presence. Nothing unusual, it happens. He pursued me all my life even when I turned my back on Him. Anyway, I became aware of a p...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Tue, 06 May 2008 07:40:00 PST

A Normal Day

King Kong atop Empire State Building singing sweetly through muffled sobs giant teardrops splashing to the street below..... Love bound and gagged is read her rights and is led away for ...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:05:00 PST

St. Augustine, The Beatles and George Harrison

I found this in the "Let It Be" movie dialogue and picture book probably put there by George Harrison.....Check it out........... "To whatever the soul of man turns, unless toward God it cleav...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:13:00 PST

Synchronicity

Today, July 10th 2007, I'm driving to the Garden State Parkway listening to Gordon Lightfoot singing a song called "The Pony Man." It's a nice song but really more for kids. Anywa...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

Liner Notes

Walking up Broadway around 101st Street, an inner voice suddenly asks, "Steve, are you on your path?" "Yes, I am," comes the reply. The same unseen hand constantly rounding off the rough edges of my...
Posted by Steve Sherry on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:02:00 PST