New Poem! Ode to a Metronome

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Ode to a Metronome by Michael Rays Relentless and unfeeling come the clicks not caring if your wrist is sore today interrogating as you play each lick: ‘Is timing of the essence when you play?’ And though your own hand sets the tempo’s pace from that point on the little box is king and should you err, revealing […]

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New Word! Rocksolography

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Having recently self-published the ebook “Guitar Odyssey” and now working on “Guitar Odyssey 2: Talkin’ Dirty,” I have been faced with a marketing dilemma: What category best describes these books, in which I chronicle my day-to-day efforts to learn a rock solo on the guitar? Rock n Roll? Guitar? Music? Diary? All are sort of right; […]

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New Poem! Ode to Guitar Players

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Ode to Guitar Players by Michael Rays What meaneth one who says ‘I play guitar’? A batch of basic chords strummed ‘round the fire An introverted teen who’d be a star woodshedding endless blues licks on a Squier? A young gal voicing jazz chords warm and pure An old man finger-picking on the porch A […]

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Guitar vs Golf: The Battle for Hobby Supremacy!

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You’re a space alien who’s just landed on Planet Earth and you’re looking for a hobby. You scan the hobby lobe in the brains of 1,000 passersby, and you get 1,000 identical responses: Words With Friends. So you play that for a while, but now you want something more old-school. You scan again: 500 say guitar, […]

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Links of North Dakota, Thy Name is Nick Poss!

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Last Saturday I played–for the first time–the Links of North Dakota, a relatively new golf course near Williston, on the northern shore of the Missouri River. My friend Jeff, teeing off toward the Missouri River Later that evening, in Wibaux, Montana’s Gem Theatre, I watched and heard–for the first time–Nick Poss, a young singer/songwriter from Oklahoma. […]

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