CD Review: Danielle Sansone, “Two Flowers”
Danielle Sansone – Two Flowers (Azalea Street Records, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) We didn’t really understand what was about to happen at the time, but when my daughter Sophie was born, my wife and I embarked on a monthslong journey into that hellish place known as Teaching Them to Sleep Land. It’s always dark there, and always foggy, and there’s never anything on TV except for infomercials. Oh, and there’s a lot of crying, and you’ll... Read More
Book Review: Philip Pelletier, “One Night in Frogtown”
Cool picture, huh? It comes from a scene halfway through Philip Pelletier’s One Night in Frogtown, in which our hero, young Tad — that’s him there with the downcast look and the saxophone — is given a tongue-lashing (ha, ha, ha!) by a group of classical music-playing frogs who have no patience for Tad’s love of the blues. Of course, Tad’s already been cast out by the blues-playing frogs for not loving the blues enough — and his journey’s... Read More
