There’s nothing quite like happy music to put a skip in your step. It’s terribly unfashionable but I do love Dean Martin, particularly in the car. At the moment I’m listening to an album of his greatest hits that I picked up in the op shop. No chance of getting bored because there are
New ways to do familiar things often come from unexpected places. One of my work colleagues has recently discovered the ukulele and we have a lunchtime uke session once a week. Today we soaked up a little autumn sunshine on the deck and played Blue Moon. It’s a pretty straightforward tune, except those couple of
If you listen to Peggy Lee singing “Things Are Swingin'” I probably don’t have to write a word about why it makes me happy. Great song. Great arrangement. Great delivery. It’s on the iPod that lives in my bathroom, so it’s often the shower soundtrack (a change from Que Sera Sera in my early twenties,
Like the 19th century prairie, recording is a strange blend of high stress, fun and the beauty of being completely in the moment. The stress is in making something semi-permanent and paying for studio time, and the beauty lies in a dedicated time and space centred on sound and capturing the music. So it’s an