By Kevin Burton Twice in her life Alison Trelfa has worked as a music teacher. Some of her advice on a recent zoom call has me going to school. Trelfa is a blind singer/songwriter from Middleborough, England. I wrote about her and her self-released album Decades Of Creation Saturday and Sunday on Page …
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Alison Trelfa: At Home With The Music
by Kevin Burton The inside photo is the most evocative of the two that come with “Decades of Creation” an album by Alison Trelfa. That one shows her seated on a porch swing, holding her ukulele and smiling. That picture lets you know you’re at home with Alison Trelfa, who is at home …
Discovering The Music Of Alison Trelfa
by Kevin Burton Alison Trelfa can’t recall a time without music. You could say music filled the world surrounding her as a girl, to paraphrase one of her favorite songs. On weekends home from the Royal Victoria School for the Blind, Trelfa would usually spend the Saturday at rehearsals for her mother’s …
“Be My Baby” Has Had A Huge Influence
by Kevin Burton The story of a stunned Brian Wilson pulling over to the side of the road makes me smile every time. Wilson is the driving force behind the Beach Boys. He was stopped in his and his car’s tracks, by the sheer brilliance of something coming from the radio that he …
Fifty Years On, Wings Has Mixed Legacy
by Kevin Burton Fifty years ago today Paul McCartney announced the formation of Paul McCartney and Wings. The move was a guaranteed winner and a guaranteed loser. A winner because any piece of music with McCartney’s name on it was going to get a listen. It was going to sell at least …
“Songs In The Attic” Closes Another Show
by Kevin Burton Do you have certain albums you play to set certain moods? Like a baseball manager has a closer, there is one album I go to when one era of life is ending and another beginning. I moved a lot in my 20s and I listened to Billy Joel a …
Racism Sucks, Disco Is Just Music
by Kevin Burton Silly me, I was just listening to the music. I was young for sure, but not that young. Still, I had to have it all spelled out for me, after the fact. The first person I ever heard utter the phrase “disco sucks,” years later turned out to be …
Great Anticipation For New Rafferty Music
by Kevin Burton Hot-buttered joy for breakfast baby, Gerry Rafferty is back! His family is set to release a new CD of his music ten years after his death. This is big, big news in my house. Rest In Blue is set for release Sept. 3. That’s close enough to my …
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Opening Another Can Of John Mayer Music
by Kevin Burton It turns out my inelastic brain, not just a fondness for The Stylistics and Little River Band, keeps me spinning old tunes, not trying the new ones. In a recent post I explained that my brain’s corticofugal network recognizes the music I am hearing and keeps me grooving by helping …
Characters We Love From Rock And Roll
by Kevin Burton Which people from the words of popular music would you like to spend a little more time with? Which characters can you think of who if they showed up in a movie or a TV series you would be eager to watch? There are plenty of songs that are …
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