Don McLean released his iconic album, “American Pie,” in 1971. The title song epitomizes the era of the nineteen sixties. A famous lyric...

“True Colors” is a song with legs. It started out as a song written for a mother in a traditional ballad format. Billy Steinberg and Tom...

Time After Time is a Cyndi Lauper song. I’ve never been a big fan of her music, but that only means it doesn’t resonate with me in...

“Crossroads” is another great song by Don McLean. It first appeared on his hit album, “American Pie.” Although the song is not as...

I’m reposting a blog previously titled “Vincent: A True Lover.” I’ve decided to re-learn the song closer to the original. “Starry, starry...

In 1964, Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of his most memorable songs: Early Morning Rain. Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter, has become...

Who doesn’t remember Simon and Garfunkle singing Kathy’s song? The answer is probably tons of people under the age of thirty, but who’s...

Fifty years have flown by at supersonic speed. I can flash back on memories of my childhood and adolescence and remember them clearly as...

In these troubling times, it seems like the world could go off a cliff at any moment. I remember what it was like in the nineteen-sixties...

“I live for a sense of a feeling of purposefulness in this world, you know, that I could stop my life at any point and feel that my life...

“Fields of Gold” is one of Sting’s most famous songs. It is a stunning and thoughtful track about the journey of commitment. The song...

Kate Wolf left a legacy of over two hundred songs that she recorded and performed in live concert. I’ve played a number of those songs...

I had never heard of Carrie Newcomer before a friend played one of her songs in an online gazing/meditation class. “The Gathering of...

A photographic interpretation of the Kate Wolf song “Muddy Roads.” Visit http://www.davidgittlin.net  for the full post titled “Through...

There is beauty within us. There is beauty everywhere in the world. All we have to do is to want to feel it and see it. Even in the...

I choose to wander in sunlight to avoid the riptide of darkness threatening to engulf our world. I prefer to see and hear beauty. I...

“Lay me Down Easy” is technically a blues song. To me, the song sounds upbeat with a whisper of the blues in the background. And there’s...

I first heard “Cornflower Blue” as the opening song on Kate Wolf’s 1983 double album “Give Yourself to Love.” As I listened to the...

“With a voice that has all the sweetness of a California morning and the loneliness of the sea beating against its rocky shores, it’s a...

Kate Wolf came to prominence during a ten year period from 1975 to 1985. Tragically, Leukemia brought Kate’s life and singer/songwriting...