‘Christmas at T-Bock’s’ virtual concert will feature several regional musicians, plus Joe and Vicki Price
by Julie Berg-Raymond
It would be difficult - indeed, it may be impossible - to adequately express the importance of music in all of our lives. Whether we’re celebrating, mourning, dancing or dreaming, music has always offered a way to punctuate the experience of living a fully human life.
In the great bluesman Willie Dixon’s estimation, music (particularly, for him, blues music) is also a way of “calling on God”; and the past year has seen many of us doing exactly that, as we have turned to musical artists of the past and present for what their work makes possible - an experience of the connection to something greater than and beyond ourselves. In the wail of a steel guitar, the sigh of a tenor sax, the moan of a perfectly turned blue note, we hear the echo of our own longings; we know we are not alone.
