Stories tagged “musician”
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Tips
“Thank you, ma’am, I greatly appreciate it.” The jar’s boy was slumped nonchalantly against a tree, playing an old guitar and hoping to wake the spirit of the drifting musician in the passersby. Clink went the spare change as it...
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Life of a Jazz Musician
Smoke is a disgusting thing. Especially when you are breathing it in after it was already in someone else’s mouth. But what can you do, you’re a jazz musician. It is your life. You sit there on whatever the hell kind of platform they give y...
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The Rusted Locket - Part III
My baby’s like the blowin’ wind He lifts me up I’m carried off again Tizzy Moone stared at the man who walked into The Rusted Locket as she sang and Mank Millard was playing the ivorys. My baby blows holes in my heart When I hear he&#...
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Crossroads
A hot Mississippi sun beat down on a boy trudging west along a back road. The guitar he carried was impossibly heavy, yet he bore it with the determination of someone possessed. His face was streaked where drops of sweat trickled down. His legs burned ...
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To be a Musician you need— (part I)
To be a Musician you need Pride a desire to show off because you are good, and you know it because the music – your music – is good, and you want the world to know it. So let the spotlight be yours. Greed to always long for more— more pieces, mor...
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To be a Musician you need— (part II)
Music is a seductress (a goddess) and you, her most delighted victim her most devoted follower will love her forever— Join the queue, wait in line, you’re just another worshipper, another genius, another poor fool, one out of (too) many. So cry...