The Symbols: Working Hard For The Money Do you remember the Dire Straits song, “Money for Nothing,” written from the perspective of an appliance store worker commenting that the life of successful musicians is all play and no work? Reality is, in order for full-time musicians to make ends meet, they must rely on multiple […]
Hip-Hop History With Curtis Sherrod
Hip-Hop’s First Wave When a significant cultural innovation occurs, it’s usually surrounded by a myriad of influential factors. They can be creative, sociological, political and even meteorological. It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. I would add that passion gets the job done, along with a bit of serendipity. Such is the […]
Chasing The Music With Clark Hodge
Happy New Year! Have you identified your 2019 resolutions? What will you be chasing after? More money? Better health? Achieving your personal dream? Making a positive difference in the world? Given the breakdown of civility and compassion in 2018, I thought it fitting to focus on how we as human beings can reach out and […]
Merry Christmas and Happy 2019!
This year, my wife and I decided that instead of sending out Christmas cards, we’d produce a video for Christmas. A couple of ideas were discussed and dismissed. Since the plan was to personally text or email our friends and family, the message should have deeper meaning than something humorous or superficial. Looking back on […]
Building Community With The Spaceship Of The Imagination
Welcome to the first episode of the On The One Podcast! In this episode, I sit down with The Spaceship of the Imagination, a Nashville theater troupe that grew out of a Christmas season synthesizer band. The founding members are Matt Rowland, Don Bermudez, Peter Wallace and Catfizch Taylor. The Spaceship of the Imagination has […]