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How do you summarize the life work of an artist? How do you condense and focus on the essentials of an artistās entire career? Especially when confronted with a body of work as large and varied as Tret Fureās.
Like her namesake The Furies, Tret is sometimes angry, beautiful, and dark. A warrior whose flaming sword is her voice ā and whose shining shield is her wit and the inventiveness of her writing. She comes flying in on her guitar steed ready for battle with red eyes speaking truth to power and exposing hypocrisy.
And yet, Tret always gives us hope, a path through the madness of our world. And I like to think that this is largely due to the love and support of her family. I mean, isnāt it our families and friends that keep us all from going off the rails?
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes pod cast. Welcome to part two of two episodes where weāll continue our interview with the multi-talented, Tret Fure.
In this episode weāll discuss Tretās advocacy, her family and whatās next for the talented singer songwriter performer teacher and pet portraitist. If you havenāt listened to Part One, I highly recommend that you go back and give it a listen before listening to this episode
Tret has asked for donations to No Child Goes Hungry as her preferred charity. Please consider making a donation.
Also you can contact Tret directly through her web page tretfure.com if you'd like to attend one of her classes or want to go on one of her songwriting trips or would like a personal guitar and/or songwriting lesson or would like a portrait of a cherished pet.Support the show
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This episodeās artist career spans the decades since the early 70s all the way to today. With 18 albums and hundreds of songs, she has continued to grow and evolve over the years. Her talent and advocacy are second to none. To say she is prolific is an understatement. One of the hardest working people I know, she continues to record, tour and teach, live and online.
From the first time I met Tret Fure long, long, ago I fell in love with her voice, her guitar, and her song writing. A lot has changed since then so letās cut my intro short and get on to the interview.
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes pod cast. Welcome to part one of two episodes where weāll interview the celebrated and talented singer/songwriter, gardener, and puppy painter, Tret Fure.Support the show
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Next up in the Reverb series is #4. Iāve combined my second episode 1-2 Friends, published on September 8th of 2021, with episode 3-5 Dottie Lou- Fable and Fact published on August 19th of 2022. This reverb episode includes the songs, āFallen Angelā, āHard Roadā, and āDottie Louā. The next section is my conversation with Dottie Lou, and a solo guitar and voice version of the song. At the very end is a mashup of all the different versions and bands with whom Iāve recorded the song.
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Waaay back in August of 2018 I was attending a Livingston Taylor songwriting and performing retreat at Boston University. We spent the day working on our songs and performance with Liv, Vance Gilbert and Melissa Ferrick. After dinner we all got our instruments and had an informal song swap in the main meeting room. This was kind of a round robin sort of thing where each of us would play a song and then the next person would play and so on. There was one guy who had been pretty quiet during the workshop, a little standoffish if Iām to be honest. So, I was pretty astonished when it came his turn to play. He pulled out his Martin and sang a great song, well performed. That person is Tod Pronto. I was impressed with Tod and started following his progress as he opened for Liv and Jonathan Edwards and other folk greats. Then, I found his Sunday morning 9am streaming show, Coffee with Tod on YouTube or on Facebook. Then, I found out that he also has a regular cartoon, Midlife Thesis, that is published every week.
I mean, what canāt he do?
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes podcast. In this episode weāll interview dear friend and accomplished singer/songwriter/cartoonist Tod Pronto and listen to three of his songs recorded live during our visit.Support the show
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Over the past three interviews and five episodes, I was beginning to get the feeling that we were drifting too far afield of the original intent of this podcast. That is writing and performing songs. However, each of our subjects are song writers.
Mark Baxter our Vocal Behaviorist has been writing songs all along since he started in rock bands in the last century. Yaron Gershovsky, band leader of the Manhattan Transfer, is constantly writing and publishing new, original songs. And Debra Monk, our star of stage and screen, early in her career, collaborated on the songs for the Tony nominated āPump Boys and Dinettesā and other musicals. So, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I hadnāt wandered too far from my original purpose. All these people are legitimate songwriters. This is often what the life of the songwriter is like. Precious few can live off their songwriting talent alone.Now, Iām not a rich person. Oh, I do Ok, and I donāt really lack for anything, but I donāt have a lot of disposable income. So, Iāve decided to sort of pay back these three with the only currency I have. Iāve written three new songs. Each one of the three subjects inspired a different song. Today weāll hear those songs and follow the process of their creation.
Welcome to the 50th episode of the Tim Tunes podcast. Begun on a whim almost three years ago, I started with the stories and recollections of my best songs. I thought Iād be done once I made through the first batch. But episode after episode, I managed to find some songwriting or performance-based content to share with you listeners.
In this episode weāll explore three recently written songs that were inspired by the subjects of this seasonās podcast. If you havenāt listened to episodes 5-1 through 5-5, I suggest you go back and give them a listen to better appreciate these songs.
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Welcome to Part 2 of our conversation with Debra Monk. If you havenāt heard part 1 then I highly suggest you do so before listening to this episode. You wonāt want to miss the stories of how she developed Broadway and off-Broadway shows with the likes of Kander and Ebb and Steven Sondheim, not to mention a few shows and songs she helped to write.
In this episode, weāll discuss Debra's experience on the Kander and Ebb and Holmes musical āCurtainsā. Then weāll discuss a little more about Debraās TV and Movie career, followed by her advice to actors, what she is doing currently and what the future may hold. So, plug in your ear buds and get a flagon of your favorite beverage as we continue our conversation with Debra.
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Hey cherished listeners, Tim Rose here. In case you havenāt already heard, Iāve re-releasing some of my previous episodes as I have discovered that these episodes are posted in mono as opposed to stereo. Now prepare yourself for this Tim Tunes Reverb episode in stereo!
In this episode of Reverb Iāve combined episode 1-7 Romantic Love, published on October 8th of 2012 with episode 1-10 Platonic Love published on October 29th of 2012 and called it simply āLove Songsā. This reverb includes the songs, āTrue Loveā, āI Needed Somebodyā, āLazy Loveā, āI Will Always Love Youā, āLove Flowsā, and What we make Itā. Here we go!Support the show
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What is it that makes one a star? Is it talent? Is it perseverance? Or is it just plain hard work? Perhaps itās all three. Weāll discuss this and much, much more in this episodeās conversation with Debra Monk.
When I was studying Theater in College at what is now Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD. Our Acting teacher, Dr David Press, would give us acting exercises to perform. Often, he would hold up the example of how Debra Monk, or Deb, as he called her, performed a particular exercise as the best example of how to perform that exercise. Debra was a senior then when I was just a freshman, so our paths did not cross very much when we were there.
Over the years, I heard of her success, first on TV getting an Emmy for her performance as Andy Sipowiczās wife in NYPD Blue. Then, while visiting Dr. Press, he told me of her shows on Broadway. I looked her up and told her I was coming to see her in the play Curtains on Broadway. She met me after the show and graciously gave me a backstage tour. Later, while she was performing Laughing Wild, a two person show with Christopher Durang in Boston, I met her for lunch and to talk about old times.
Two years ago, for Episode 3-6, I asked if she wanted to contribute a message to my acting mentor and our mutual teacher, Dr. David Press. She sent me a glowing tribute which was just wonderful. So, earlier this year I contacted her about an interview, and she agreed to sit with me.
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes podcast. In this episode, part 1 of 2 of our interview with Debra Monk, we cover multiple topics: from how she got into the business, how she approaches her work, and stories from her career. So, assume your favorite podcast listening position as we delve into the life and times of a true American Treasure.
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Hey cherished listeners, Tim Rose here. In case you havenāt already heard, Iām re-releasing some of my previous episodes as I have discovered that these episodes are posted in mono as opposed to stereo. So, I bit the bullet and ponied up for the stereo version. Now prepare yourself for this Tim Tunes Reverb episode in stereo!
Originally released in October of 2021, Funny Songs remains my most popular episode, so I couldnāt wait to give it the Reverb treatment so people could finally hear their favorite funny songs how they were intended to be heard. As a bonus. Iāve included five other funny songs from my Sarcasm and Aging episodes from season 1.Support the show
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In this episode weāll interview Yaron Gershovsky. As bandleader for Manhattan Transfer for 44 of their 50 years, he has a treasure trove of knowledge and experience around performing and composing which he will share with us on this episode. Get ready for a fun ride as we discuss his origins, career and whatās next.
In the spring of 2006, I was in a production of the musical āCity of Angelsā by Cy Coleman, David Zipel and Larry Gelbart with the Burlington Players in Burlington, MA. The musical is a story about a novelist whose book is adapted into a movie and about the entire LA movie scene. As the novel is turned into a screenplay the movie moves further and further away from the novelās original purpose and meaning. This causes a sort of schism in the mind of the novelist where he ends up having arguments with his lead character. There are lots of transitions from reality to scenes from the movie and so forth.
At any rate, I was a part of a quartet that served as kind of a chorus that commented, amplified and clarified the action of the play, as choruses do. The whole play had a sort of film noir feel about it and the music for the chorus was very challenging jazzy close harmony type singing. I noticed that the vocal arrangement was written by one Yaron Gershovsky. I was curious about this fellow, so I Googled him. Now back in 2006 Google was primarily a search engine and not the GOOGLE that it is today. But regardless, I found out that Yaron was the band leader of Manhattan Transfer. That made so much sense in the context of the sound of the arrangements.
Skip ahead to the early twenty teens. I was at Scullerās, a jazz venue in Boston, to see Manhattan Transfer when who should I see walking down the hall toward me but Yaron himself. I introduced myself to him and told him that I had sung the Bass part in a production of āCity of Angelsā. In his quiet, understated way he looked at me and, I assume referring to the difficulty of the part, said, āIām so sorry.ā So began our acquaintance.Support the show
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Hey cherished listeners, Tim Rose here. In case you havenāt already heard, Iām re-releasing some of my previous episodes as I have discovered that these episodes are posted in mono as opposed to stereo. So, I bit the bullet and ponied up for the stereo version. Now prepare yourself for this Tim Tunes Reverb episode in stereo!
If you missed the first time around with Ted Onulak then you missed a treat. In addition to our conversation with the irrepressible Ted, there are recordings of a few of his original songs as well as bootlegs of his band playing live at Madamās Organ in Adams Morgan in Washington, DC where Ted and his band Exit 10 continue to play on Monday nights. Iāve combined both episode 3-2 and 3-3 into a continuous conversation. EnjoySupport the show
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Back in the ā60s and early ā70s I lived in a suburb in Maryland just over the line from Washington, DC. As it happened when we moved there in 1964, the neighborhood was largely white. Around 1969 I started forming Rock Bands with my friends. We listened to top 40 and played the songs we liked, and could play. I was only 15 at the time and was too young to play in clubs, but that would come later.
When we first moved in only about 5% of the neighborhood was non-white. Over the next 7 years the neighborhood became almost completely black. Now, I had no problem with this except that crime began to rise. I was almost mugged twice. A neighbor was shot by undercover police when he pulled out a gun as they stopped him one night, not a block from my house.
While I was away at college, my parents decided to move to a different place. Almost everyone I knew from the old neighborhood had moved away. The old neighborhood just ā dissolved.
So, youāll see why this episode speaks to me as we continue our discussion with Mark Baxter ā Vocal Behaviorist as he tells us his origin story. How a kid from New Jersey winds up as one of the premier voice consultants and teachers in the world.
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes Podcast. This episode is Part Two of my interview with Vocal Behaviorist, Mark Baxter. If you havenāt listened to part one, I highly suggest that you do so before listening to this episode. Mark lays out his philosophy and methodology in part one. In this episode Mark will tell us about his struggles to find his path and how he developed his dream.
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Singing is your birthright. Everyone can sing. Some of us are wounded by our experiences, by the negativity of others, and believe we canāt sing. But all of us can sing.
Singing is a window to the soul. Singing with others provides a depth of emotion that is rarely, if anywhere else, experienced. Group singing can be joyful or happy, smiling or laughing as you sing. Or it can be deeply sad or mournful, empathy is built into our nature. Grief is especially powerful when expressed in song.
Itās not just regular people who have negative thoughts and practices around singing, itās also professional singers. Most of us have been told at one time or another that we are not good singers. And that sinks in, even if we deny it.
So where can a quality singer turn if they need help with their singing voice? Weāre about to find out in this episode.
Iām Tim Rose and welcome to Season, I can hardly believe Iām going to say it, 5 of the Tim Tunes Podcast. Today is our forty-second episode. This season weāll feature in-depth interviews with performers and music professionals. Weāll speak with musicians, singers, band directors, and service providers. Weāre starting this season with a pair of podcasts that features Mark Baxter, vocal behaviorist. Iāll let Mark explain what that means.Support the show
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Imagine, if you will, sitting down to listen to some music and having a computer create, on the spot, a great song with meaningful, heartfelt lyrics. With melodies and harmonies that soar and lift us up. This is the promise of songs generated by Artificial Intelligence. But Iām here to report, we arenāt there yet.
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes Podcast. In this special Christmas episode weāll attempt to write and record three original Christmas songs using Artificial Intelligence. So, relax, have a seat in our sleigh while we listen to Christmas of the FUTURE, Future, future...Support the show
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When I was a teen, I had a paper route delivering the Washington Post. My paper route wasnāt near my house so the route distributor, thatās the person that delivers the papers to the paperboy, would drive me and my friend Charlie up to our routes. After we were done, heād come back and pick us up and take us home. But while we were waiting for him to pick us up, weād read the paper as there was sometimes a paper or two left over. Of course, we always went right to the comics and when the comics were done there was a syndicated column by investigative reporter Jack Anderson. Anderson, a Pulitzer prize winning Morman republican muckraker, was equally hard on the left and the right. After that weād turn over to the editorial section to decrypt the latest political cartoon from Herblock. Then, weād seek out the latest Art Buchwald column. Art was kind of the printed version of Jon Stewart. A more political Dave Barry, if you will. Growing up in the DC area would have a profound effect on my worldview and sense of humor.
I try not to be political, in a āIām this party or that partyā sense. I try to be apolitical, which is becoming harder and harder as the world changes. I am a proud registered independent waiting for candidates to convince me to vote for them. I try to vote for the person I like who tells me what they are going to do, in real terms, not in vague generalities. Iām much more interested in why I should vote for someone than why I shouldnāt vote for the other candidate. That I can decide for myself.
I'm Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes Podcast. In this episode weāll cover three songs that are arguably political in nature. The first song satirizes the US governmentās involvement in South America in the 70s, the next song is my reaction to our post 9/11 invasion of Iraq, and the last song laments our loss of liberty because of these events. So, get comfy as we delve into the world of politics.Support the show
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When people ask if the lyrics or the music comes first when writing a song, I say, "Yes, itās both". Itās very seldom that Iāll have the concept of the song and the lyrics written before I start writing the music.
Songwriting is a messy business. You bring together a bunch of disparate things into a cohesive whole and the process can be a little convoluted. It becomes more complicated as you add others to the process.
Also, you canāt be too critical of what you are doing at this point. As Paul McCartney famously sang in outtakes from the song āYesterdayā, āscrambled eggsā. Paul used āscrambled eggsā as a placeholder until he had a better word. Had Paul been very critical of what he was writing he may have abandoned the song, and we wouldnāt have the song āYesterdayā.
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes podcast. This is part two of our songwriting sessions with Greg Chastain founder and president of Voices of Hope. Listen in now as he and I write and record a song together about Greg and his mom.Support the show
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In this episode Iāll interview old friend and Voices of Hope founder and president Greg Chastain in preparation for writing a song together. Greg has not only been a musical influence, including Musical Theater, but he has also inspired me and many others to donate our time and skills in a very worthy pursuit.
When I was about 25 years old, I did this prosperity workshop thing. Mainly because I wasnāt very prosperous back then. I was lucky if I could afford toothpaste, much less rent. One of the exercises we did was to write down our life goals. One of my goals was to be a philanthropist, a ludicrous desire considering my financial state at the time. Working with Greg has helped me realize that goal.
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In this episode weāll be doing something a little different than usual. I recently gave a live online concert of nine songs. It was a mix of old songs that have never been in any of my podcasts, new songs that I have never performed and requests from donors and patrons.
It features 9 original songs which in order are:
Little EyesAs In LoveAnd Then I RememberThe You of YouDonāt Hate MeNot TrueMiracleEye Nu U WudChunkyWhat follows is the recording of that performance.
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Itās with mixed emotions, some sadness, and some relief, that we come to Part 5 of the Waiting Room set of podcasts. Iāll admit Iām somewhat relieved to be at the end of this journey, but also a little sad that Iāll have to work harder to put together the next podcast. You see, itās been relatively easy for me to crank these sessions out as most of the content was already written and recorded.
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes pod cast. This episode is the fifth and final episode in the serialized version of The Waiting Room. If you have not listened to season 4 episodes 1-4, I suggest you stop and go back and listen to those episodes before listening to this one.Support the show
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What happens when the end is near, and we and our loved ones are faced with the decisions on how to end a life? What if the patient is incapacitated? How do we make those final decisions for them? Do we have the courage and the presence of mind to do the right thing? Are we acting in the best interests of the patient, or are we acting in our own selfish interest? Play time is over. Things are about to get real.
Iām Tim Rose and this is the Tim Tunes podcast. Welcome to the penultimate episode of my musical āThe Waiting Roomā. This is the fourth installment of the five-part serialized version of the musical. If you havenāt listened to parts 1-3, I highly suggest that you go back and listen to those episodes before listening to this one.In this episode weāll cover three scenes as we rush towards our conclusion. The comic relief is over. Itās time to deal with some of the darker aspects of this topic. In this episode weāll see how grief affects us, sometimes long after a person is gone. Then, weāll watch as one of our characters deals with the end of life of a loved one. Then finally, weāll get a dream view into the mind of our incapacitated loved one to see what they would want. So, buckle up as we dive in.
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