Rick Springfield Tao CD - Import

\"I am deeply touched by the poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi, a 13th century Sufi poet whose work is infused with his profound relationship with the divine. My own encounter with Rumi has been a life changing inspiration that has moved me to create music and songs with his magical words at the center. Many of these pieces came through meditation and improvisation, and were composed and refined over time. In staying true to the essence of Rumi\'s spirit, I wanted the music to be immediate - born in a state of flow and carrying that ...

Master slide guitar man, Richard Bell, has played with such greats as Delbert McClinton, Highway 101, Dr. Hook, and Earl Thomas Conley, to name a few. Bell delivers his unmistakable tone and tasteful interpretation ...

be ) Amanda Pearcy was raised in Houston, the youngest of four with several years between her and her brother and sisters, by a motherless mother and a fatherless father in an alcoholic home. Although she yearned to express herself creatively in a musical way during her childhood, her first guitar lesson wasn't until after life had shifted, again, as it does. Her son was getting older, both of her parents had recently passed, and Katrina had just hit New Orleans. She pulled out her late husband's pawn shop guitar and got after the work of finally feeding her soul. Amanda had never formally studied music, written a song, or strummed a guitar, but in a sense she had her own way of 'studying,' while waiting tables in and frequenting live music venues in Houston and Austin, TX, and while two stepping in old time dance halls in Bastrop County, TX. Amanda Pearcy's new CD, Waitin' On Sunday, tells her story with authenticity and grace, and weaves the stories of her life into a stunning debut CD. In what feels like another life time ago to her, Amanda and her first husband made their home in the Lost Pines of Bastrop, TX, east of Austin. She hung cloth diapers out on the line to dry and her husband left before the sun came up (the weeks he worked the day shift) to work the oil rigs around South Central Texas. Having a day off only if the rig was down, he worked seven days a week as a derrick man, or, as songwriter Sam Baker (also produced by Tim Lorsch), wrote of a similar character in one of his songs, as "a rough neck with a hand done tattoo". They had three sweet traditional years together, but her husband passed away when their son was two years old, leaving Amanda with not much more than a '71 Olds Cutlass Supreme (hard ...