Playing music with others does something to you...
I'll never forget recording my first full length album.
My wife and I funded the entire thing ourselves. Flew my buddy from London to Cincinnati to play drums on it. Hired a professional cellist to compose and record on six of the ten songs. Brought in so many friends to sing or play random parts.
For three straight weeks I locked myself inside the cathedral where this studio was housed. Each ...
He was called "god" at 25. His greatest work came at 46.
There's a version of Eric Clapton's story that most people know.
The prodigy. The legend. The man whose fans spray-painted "Clapton is god" on the walls of London Underground stations in the 1960s when he was barely in his mid-twenties. The guitarist who played on Beatles records, formed Cream, wrote Layla, and became the only musician ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three sep...
The guitar in the closet
There's a particular kind of person I love working with.
They've done everything right. Built a career over 35 years that most people would envy. Retired with financial security, the freedom to travel, maybe a sports car in the driveway and a pilot's license to boot.
By every conventional measure, they've won.
And yet there's still one thing sitting in the closet... or the corner of the spare b...
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