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Many thanks for your nice comments, and I would be glad to send you an album if you will email me your address at dschneider@kslaw.com.
As for my musical roots, I was planted in the soil of the singer-songwriter movement of the 60s and 70s -- I was inalterably thunderstruck by James Taylor, Elton John, Cat Stevens, Don McLean, Carol King -- and my mother's music made an imprint on me too --from Frank Sinatra to Julie Andrews and Barbara Striesand. And the poets had an impact --TS Eliot, Robert Frost, John Keats, Shakespeare. You take all of that, mix with two parts desire, three parts absolute love, one part terminally positive, one part hoping to be beautiful -- and you get me, and likely you and all of our kindred souls here at the JT crossroads.
I wrote a little song about my musical roots --called These Were My Friends --which is on my first album and is as raw a confession as there can be. If you want that album, just let me know and I will send it.
I am a poor player. I am an okay singer. But I am a fervent lover of songs that just kill you, and I go looking for them every day.
I will join you all for sure in Paris one day. I will come years after Fitzgeral and Hemingway, but I will come for the same reason --for the joy of fellow human beings who stand spellbound by art.
Regards
Doc Schneider