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Mark Lager Music Rose City Band

Mark Lager’s Summer Vinyl: Rose City Band – Earth Trip (2021)

Novalis once wisely wrote, “Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.” This same truth is found much more deeply in music and poetry. 2020 – 2021 will be remembered as the homesickness years. We were separated from loved ones and quarantined inside our homes and, during this trauma, some of us …

Bobbie Gentry Mark Lager Music

Bobbie Gentry – Ode to Billie Joe (1967): Et in Arcadia Ego ~ June Light, June Wind

Arcadia was an idyllic paradise, a rural sanctuary, that was longed for even in the days of ancient Greece and Rome as urban life dominated and pastoral life disappeared. Arcadia was a mystical, mythical realm for medieval Europeans. During the Baroque era, the Italian artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (known as Guercino) created a painting named …