Attention Williamsburg hipsters! Are you going to SXSW? Do you want to know the origin of all of your guitar riffs? Well then on Saturday, March 19, 2:00pm go to the panel called Searching for Blind Willie Johnson. You’ll get … Continued
What were the most viewed posts on the A Life’s Work blog? Glad you asked. The list is a little misleading, because some posts have been up for a lot longer than others, and so naturally will have more views. … Continued
While I was at Blue Mountain Center I edited a Black Gospel Music Restoration Project section with headphones on so as not to disturb my fellow residents. Unlike the clip that’s online, this bit takes place at Baylor University (Waco, … Continued
There was a time when I believed it was possible to achieve perfection in art. (See Practice, Practice by yours truly in Helen Literary Magazine.) Here’s me playing one of the first classical pieces I learned, Lagrima by Francisco Tarrega, recorded at … Continued
Haroon Butt is a frequent commenter on the A Life’s Work blog, so I asked him to write something about why he keeps coming back to this blog. Here was his response. Why do I keep coming back here? David … Continued
Today’s guest blogger is Robert Darden, journalism professor at Baylor University, author of Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement and People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel … Continued
On June 20, 2009, I uploaded the first post on this blog. Highlights since then? Interviewed the fourth subject twice. Incorporated him into the sample at VCCA, laid out the framework for the rest of the film at the MacDowell … Continued
Here’s a slideshow of images lifted from the recent shoot in Waco. It’s going to be a while before I have a sequence edited, but I may put up some footage DP Andy Bowley shot with his Canon 5D DSLR … Continued
Cinematographer Andy Bowley and I visited Robert Darden at Baylor University, home of the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. Though I conducted an extensive interview with Robert in Chicago (see “What the Heck Were You Doing in Chicago?” Part 1), … Continued
