Our friend J is very astute.
It’s tough to get beginning players to stop worrying with technique issues and to get to that point where the instrument is transparent and the player is shining through. There’s a great deal of “over-learning” that has to take place (IMHO) and not every neophyte survives this trek up the [...]

Shania and Mutt are splitting up.
Shania Twain and husband-producer Robert “Mutt” Lange are splitting up after 14 years of marriage. The 42-year-old Canadian country superstar and 59-year-old Lange married in 1993 and have a 6-year-old son named Eja. Her publicist provided no further details Thursday about the couple’s breakup.
I wonder who gets custody of the [...]