“You won’t soon read a more beautiful book, nor one so earthy, wise, delicious, and alive. This is not a book about fish or rivers or Montana or parenting. This is a book, to paraphrase another poet, plain and simple, to break open the frozen sea within.” —Rick Bass I have been waiting years to have this conversation with author, poet, and fly-fishing guide Chris Dombrowski. There is a kinship I feel with Chris’s lens on life. He is a top-shelf writer to boot. The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water comes out October 11th, 2022. I …
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Deadstock in the Storm with Jeffrey Foucault
“Immaculately tailored… Sometimes [Foucault’s] songs run right up to the edge of the grandiose and hold still, and that’s when he’s best… Close to perfection” – New York Times Deadstock in the Storm with Jeffrey Foucault Jeffrey Foucault is a top shelf songwriter. Foucault has a slew of albums worth your collection and his latest Deadstock should be the first one you pick up. Deadstock has been a real good friend to me in the ups and downs of this season. Foucault’s music makes a grown man like me swoon, sway, and slyly sing his lyrics to myself. This is the type of music that …
Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight
Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight A plucked musical movement, hairpin poetic turns, mythical stories in rough harmonics. Baptize me into this Kitchen Music Society of Sorrow and Delight. No time like a pandemic to establish a new society. Perhaps by the end of this, you’ll join the membership. Recently, I uncovered a faded list of songs I had written years ago. Songs that I want played at my wake. Songs that speak to my body while I breathe and my hope that they’ll speak to my dearest after I’ve exhaled my last breath. I can picture beers cracked …