I first heard Michael Hedges’s Breakfast in the Field when Windham Hill Records sent me a copy (vinyl) upon its release. By then, my Windham Hill record, Willow, had been out for two years, and during that time I’d been doing a lot of concerts with Alex de Grassi,...
In writing this series of posts about Meetings With Remarkable People, I’ve been reluctant to write about living ones. Why? First, I worry that the individuals I’m portraying might not appreciate my perspectives; I’m sure Nina Gitana and Bill Lederer would take exception to much of what I’ve written...
This is the fourth and last post about Fidel, the third person in my series Meetings With Remarkable People. Fidel is a non-human person — a cat — who demonstrates attributes I deem essential to the fulfillment of (human) personhood. My notes here are emphatically not about a cute, or...