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Do you find it hard to believe that we are more than halfway through this very strange year…

To friends, colleagues, and acquaintances, both in my travel and music communities--What Would I Do--Without You? 

Back in March, with the arrival of Covid-19, the trajectories of my travel career and my music performance career abruptly and dramatically altered for the foreseeable future--no different than a lot of folks. 

However, as my trucker friends used to say: "Keep your wheels on the ground, your nose pointed forward, at a roadblock, find a detour." 

My detour has been to professional education…

To be a songwriter of Americana--that is, expressing human stories in the American vernacular--is to be caught often between sadness and satisfaction. The sadness stems from the sad-oh-so common stories that inpire some of the songs--death, divorce, joblessness, homelessness, the drudgery of common life, making/not making the rent, raising/losing children, ad inf.

I always try to find the resurrection, the fresh start, some joy or uplift in these sad stories and I believe I succeed, fairly often. Still, one…