The Holidays

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

The holidays have always inspired songwriters. Old favorites are usually re-worked into new presentations sometimes referred to as modernizations. Performers give us their best and our spirits lift up and fly away from the year’s tedium. Staple tunes ring out ...

Guitar Solo 1 In E Major

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

The wall behind him hissed like a cornered snake about to strike. Local electromagnetic signals swam in and out of that sonic ‘snow’ as well. The occasional trucker even barked thru, loud and clear. At his feet small green, blue, ...

Piano Sonata

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

PIANO SONATA IN E/A MINOR/MAJOR (MOVEMENT I) He sat at the piano. Correct posture was thrown to the wind as his elbows rose over his shoulders. His tattered t-shirt rippled against his thin yet taught biceps. His hands swept up ...

Tears Will Fall

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

Tears will fall. Lamentations will materialize. Someone will shout: “Why?” The possibilities are endless each day. What will happen and what might happen are two things that hover just under our thoughts throughout the day. With nightfall we might even ...

Last Night I Finished A,,,

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

Last night I finished a new set of lyrics. I read it to my muse and she seemed to like it. I am enthusiastically dreaming of the music the number will require for telling its story. The words allude in ...

Let Me Count The Things

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

Let me count the things I tend to hoard. Guitar World (magazine) Recording (magazine) Heavy Metal (magazine/comic book) Tally-books (it’s an ‘oilfield’ thing) Severely worn guitar picks (it’s a ‘tone’ thing) Battered old T-shirts (oilfield uniforms chafe!) Bandanas (the latest ...

There Are Some Emotions

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

There are some emotions that are better left in the graves we dig for them every day. Somehow they arise time and time again to block even our best efforts at maintaining our dream of what civilization should be. Though ...

No Other Species

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

No other species on Earth can tell a good story like we humans. ‘Whale-song’ is beautiful in its own right and ‘dolphin-speak’ tickles the hearts of those who hear it. The long lonely howl of a wolf in the dead ...

To Have Not

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

To have not can weigh heavily on a man’s heart. His children look up expectantly and he hurts with the knowledge of all that they want, that he cannot give them. His imagination is flooded with tears but his countenance ...

When I Sit Back And Relax

By joseexist in Musings On Muses

When I sit back and relax my mind, it jumps into a daydream mode all by itself. It pulls up references from memories and yearnings, dreams and nightmares alike, and it uses such things to ‘create’ small movies. A rapid ...