The title of my new album Transformation means several things to me. There’s personal transformation, something I’ve chased for over fifty years, through the hell realms of a spiritual cult and recently, more happily, through Vispassana meditation.  Transformation also refers to the good old alchemy of the blues, in which through music, fear, sorrow, and…

Last spring, following a fifteen year break, I started composing music again. The result is the album Delight, which is available on iTunes and YouTube along with videos I’ve created. During the years I wasn’t composing I barely touched a guitar or piano. What changed? In a word: technology. By the mid 2000’s I’d published…

(I wrote this appreciation in 2010. Blue was released on this day 50 years ago. I’m so pleased to see the world recognizing it — perhaps more than any album in history. The New York Times devoted a fine piece to it, with the thoughts of 25 musicians on each song. I also felt the…

In October our Tibetan Spaniel Milo developed a cough. Ten days later he was dead of an enlarged heart. Judy and I were devastated. Milo was fourteen, but our previous Tibbies had lived to almost twenty. Judy had sworn up and down that Milo would be our last dog. Within hours of Milo’s passing we…