Nick Cave on Music, Creativity and Grief

Photo of Nick Cave by by photographer Detlev Schneider My heart carries too much grief. My daughter’s constant struggle with her illness. The loss of dear friends, those who died from AIDS in the 1990’s and those I’ve lost to cancer now. The loss of my husband to...

Goodbye David Bowie. I will always love your music.

Christine and I were best friends our freshman year in high school, and one day she played a David Bowie record for me. Of course I knew who David Bowie was, who hadn’t heard his music in 1982? But I had never actually listened to his music until that day when I...

Allen Toussaint’s last song

New Orleans music legend Allen Toussaint died last night in Madrid of a heart attack. He was 77. He died after performing the music he loved so much. Below is a link to the last song he played. ‘Brickyard Blues’, Madrid, 9 Nov La última canción de Allen...