Music from Brian Dyer Stewart

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The tune this cycle is Silver Moon, a blues tune from a bit ago, on a full moon last autumn, I think.  Lost love has something universal to offer, just that feeling of woebegone.

    Love and Courage,

    Brian

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Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The tune this cycle is We Will Rise.  We've been on the road this week, visiting kids and grandkids.  Such deep sorrow, worry and fear we see as we travel, even as spring shows its first signs and the joy and fervor of our grandkids shines.  There are such real and imminent problems to face in our time, in our country.  It is hard to see our leadership deliberately creating fear and discord while focusing on themseles and their desire for fame, fortune, and power.  The world needs us all to pull at the oars of cooperation, mutual support and service to each other.  Instead, we attack those committed to service, villanize the most vulnerable, rewrite history as if that might erase the failures and problems that remain in our times.

    We Will Rise remembers how we have and can come together in times of crisis, disaster and chaos to support each other and bring hope where devastation and fear have wrought great pain. 

    Hand in hand, together, we will rise.

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The tune this cycle is Here and Now, a love song from this past November and to quote the bard, What the world needs now is love, sweet love.  It's the only thing that there's just too little of.  So, let's bring it on!  May love be yours and may you give it freely to all those around you!

    My best to each,

    Brian

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The tune this cycle is Snow at Christmas, a piano improv from a couple years ago, when there wasn't snow at the holidays.  Just a little tune but I hope it captures the spirit.

    My best to each,

    Brian

I'm sending you a monthly offering from original music I've been writing over many years. I've been so bold as to add your email to my newsletter list.  You can unsubscribe at any time (link at the bottom of the email).

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is Love Will Guide Us Home, which I wrote just before Thanksgiving.  It's a bit of a mellow song for the topic - love isn't that quiet an energy, really, but something that actuates us, revolutionizes us, sets on fire and opens us wide to the beauty and the pain!  So here's wishing that lover for each of us as we head toward winter and the new year.  I'm so grateful for each of you and the chance to share music. 

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is Metaphysical Rap, which I wrote in the early '90s, recorded here by Joyful Noise - Bruce Cassaday on trumpet, Leonore Hildebrandt on percussion, Joel Mann on bass, me on the guitar and all of us on vocals.

    My best to each,

    Brian

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is Stand Together, drawn from way back in the archives.  Pammy and I were in Bangor today to visit our dear friends Dennis and Kathehrine who were celebrating their recent 50th wedding anniversary. We've been friends for nearly forty years, through work, kids, community and peace efforts. 

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

Dear family, friends, and fellow travelers,

    The song this cycle is Song Writer's Lament (So Much for that Bottle of Jameson), written a few years ago at the Catie at the Cove songwriters' retreat.  I'm fond of the line "his true mother tongue, the ladder whose rungs let him climb up to the stars" which somehow rings true for me, even these seventy-three years along...

    My best to each,

    Brian