Chuck Perrin

The pot is always stirring, but I wonder if any of you feel like I do, that things are beginning to spin out of hand. What is fueling all the aggression and intense competitiveness that is seeping through the cracks in our so-called culture? I’m talking about more than the random shootings, the senseless mean-spirited… [ read more ]

Today happens to be the birthday of one of my favorite musicians, Indiana born and bred jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. He developed his own unique style – a way of thumbing notes out of his guitar, making use of full-handed harmonic octaves and block chords to create a fat thick sound that became his signature… [ read more ]

S o m e t i m e s, on those long strange endless winter nights, when I find myself slipping in and out of a relentlessly restless sleep – this feeling of unease creeps across my consciousness like a stray shadow, a black cloud of foreboding. I’m not sure why. It could be that… [ read more ]