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Wassily Kandinsky, the great abstract painter, offered music as “the best teacher” for aspiring artists in his own book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. “With few exceptions,” he wrote, “music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather

It was a night with the Allman Brothers Band that I will never forget. Dickey Betts and the entire band were on fire, and my close friend Paul Rogers and I sat mesmerized in the second row at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Paul and I had attended

The music of roots artist Kaia Kater boasts numerous layers that glue it together. There’s the integral part that folk music played on the young Kater as she grew up. There was the music her father would send, helping to forge her tastes and her interests. The music camps

Kris Kristofferson takes a final pull from a bottle of beer and tosses it at the trash. It misses. The glass bottle hits the concrete floor with an echo loud enough to turn heads, but it doesn’t break. He shrugs, “It was empty,” he says. Waiting to take the

We’ve all read a novel or a poem, studied a work of art, or listened to a song and asked ourselves what the creative process of the author or artist or musician must be like. How does a songwriter start a song? How was she inspired to write the

Note: This article was orignally posted on examiner.com on November 18, 2014. Since that website no longer exists, I'm reposting it here. Copyright 2014 by Harold Lepidus. Reposted by permission. On Thursday afternoon, I was fortunate enough to attend musician Robyn Hitchcock’s talk and performance at