Theater of the Imagination

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This episode is entitled The Coming Of Sundown

We have begun our Fractured Atlas Sundown funding campaign. Sundown combines comedy, drama, romance and a contemporary country score to explore the myth—and the men who unwittingly created it—behind one of the most compelling legends of the American West.

The Earps, the Clantons, the McLaurys and the unlikely outlaw Doc Holliday converge on Tombstone as the famous gunfight approaches. Here, Doc is a recognizably modern man: struggling to reform, repeatedly making the wrong choices and running out of time just as he finds something worth living for in the intriguing Cattle Kate.

Filled with poignancy and humor, Sundown - The Podcast Musical looks beyond the legend to reveal the humanity and capacity for redemption within these larger-than-life figures.

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From out of the blue came a song title. The muse in me grabbed it and ran with it. Yet another song title about love, but one with a twist. The true story (though partially imagined) of a romance that almost never happened. A series of near misses where finally that gigantic word “LOVE” simply takes over and leaves two people fallen. Love, the unstoppable, the irresistible, the greatest force known to mankind is indomitable and millions have experienced it! Join us as we take the journey of creating an ode to Love. It has probably happened at some point to you. If it hasn’t, then watch out. It may be coming just around the corner.

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This 50th Celebrative Podcast Episode features not only songs pertinent to the subject matter, but also whistle-stop visits in a round table discussion with many of the world’s great minds, experts on the subject of War & Peace. Come sit at the table with us as we discuss this pertinent subject regarding our world today. Cognoscenti like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Ernest Hemingway, Herbert Hoover, Bertrand Russell, Martin Luther King, Sir Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and more. With songs by Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Peter Link.

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Just because something is forgotten does not necessarily mean that it’s not any good. As the Earth turns on its axis, times change. What was up is now down. What was fast is now slow. Great leaders are forgotten. Hitlers are remembered. Good times are forgotten. Struggles are remembered. 

This podcast, Forgotten, is about forgotten songs. Whenever I write a song that I end up not liking very much, I always throw it away. I never leave it around somewhere to be forgotten. But I do have forgotten songs that I liked at the time that I wrote then but find that years later they might be best forgotten. Early works tend to be forgotten. As the years have gone by gratefully, I’ve gotten better at what I do and so my standards are higher. Still it’s always great to find all these oldies but goodies. Each of the forgotten has its own story. Here are 10.

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If you haven't heard it yet, start with Part 1. 

Think ballads and relaxed grooves. Take a break and cool out over the beauty and intimacy of some of Link’s best ballads sung by 4 or 5 top vocalists who have worked with him over for 3 or 4 decades and are all still going strong. All that's required of you are a good pair of headphones, an easy chair  and the time to do it. Get the inside stories on how and why the songs were written – the story behind the real life drama. Take a walk in the snow, an evening on the beach, a ride through the desert of the great Southwest, a night under the stars and so much more. Part 2 is the same concept as above presenting 9 more songs,

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Think ballads and relaxed grooves. Take a break and cool out over the beauty and intimacy of some of Link’s best ballads sung by 4 or 5 top vocalists who have worked with him over for 3 or 4 decades and are all still going strong. All that's required of you are a good pair of headphones, an easy chair  and the time to do it. Get the inside stories on how and why the songs were written – the story behind the real life drama. Take a walk in the snow, an evening on the beach, a ride through the desert of the great Southwest, a night under the stars and so much more.

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Gospel Music: It’s a combination of music and lyrics. It celebrates – things like life, spirit, soul, miracle, and it, of course, praises God. It makes me not sit still. It makes me want to sing along (and I’m just not a singalong guy.) It makes me watch fascinated how deeply it affects the spirit of the people around me; it makes me want to be a part of the moment. It elicits improvisation, It is unifying. Here, in this Special Edition, do we not only celebrate GospelMusic, but also our Gospel Queen, Jenny Burton, along with many of the best vocalists I ever had the privilege to work with – people like Women: Angela Clemmons, , Branice McKenzie, Jillian Armsberry, Audrey Wheeler, Cat Russell and Margaret Dorn and Danny Madden who also co-created the vocal arrangements with me and Men: Darryl Tookes, John James Keith Fluitt and Lawrence Hamilton. These folks were some A Team! Enjoy a concert of over an hour of life changing Music!

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I think it was about nine months ago that I was doing my morning read of the New York Times and I came across an article about a recent discovery of an asteroid that seemed to be heading our way. I remember thinking, “Good lord, what next?“ Thus began Benny The Comet – An ancient/modern tale of a boy, Benjamin Exnod, whose father worked at NASA and his discovery of a comet threatening Planet Earth. When comets are discovered, they are often named after the discoverer. Hence Benny The Comet. Should you be alarmed? Only if you miss this wonderful tale of the imagination. It’s a story for the ages presented as a Podcast Musical. Take the Trip! This one’s a doozy!

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One day, not so long ago, I was simply walking across my living room, when a thought hit me and stuck in my head that there was a wealthy elderly man sitting in his den playing a video board game that he had invented. The board game was somewhat magical and most complex. I stopped in my tracks and thought deeper. I realized that he was a God like figure and the board game was us, here on Planet Earth. We were the result of his invention. That was about it. I smiled and moved on across the room. 

But the notion stuck with me. I laughed at the thought and wrote it down on a slip of paper: Living In My Video Game.

Perhaps several years later, here is the result of that pause in life.

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I discovered a song I had written 4 or five decades ago. It was a response to a very bad habit that I had fallen into in life. The song was written and performed in my living room studio and was a one take … this means that I sang and played it one time in the recording process. It was an imperfect performance, but, for me, it was a powerful reaction to a profound turning point in my life. It touched me very deeply to hear the depth of emotion contained in this one take. I loved the song and decided to re-record it. As it was , in several tries I could not match the depth of the song sung by the much younger me. So I used the original Guitar/Vocal mixed track and added an orchestration to it in my studio – a duet performed by the two Mes – young and old.

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