Okay, I know I should be ruthlessly promoting my new album, Looking at Life, but hearing Joe Biden’s uplifting speech recently I couldn’t help but be reminded of this song I wrote back in 2012. Called Harvesting Light (from the album Beneath a Flagless Moon) it has to be one of the most positive lyrics […]
I have just completed a new book of poetry. No, not that new book, a new new book. I know Of Which We Have Spoken has only been available for a short time but the global pandemic gave me not only the time but also the inclination to write. The result is RIGHTING: The Pandemic […]
If I said this was a song about committing suicide I doubt people would flock to listen to it. So I won’t say that. Not exactly. What I will say is this. I was sitting in a hotel room in Barcelona having just visited one of Anthony Bourdain’s favorite tapas bars. I was thinking about […]
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Thanks to delays for various reasons combining with time for writing created by the pandemic lockdown, today sees the simultaneous launch of my new album and three new books! My new album – LOOKING AT LIFE – is available now on CD, 180 gram vinyl (in a gatefold sleeve) and as downloads (from this site and […]
My new album Looking At Life is now in final production. It will be available as downloads, on CD and as a Limited Edition vinyl album in a gatefold sleeve. Expect it somewhere between now and June depending on how busy the vinyl manufacturer is right now. This was inspired by my favorite short story […]
You may have known him, as millions did, from the tune Dueling Banjos featured in the movie Deliverance. Or you may remember him and his band Deliverance being associated with Bob Dylan’s masterpiece Blood On The Tracks. Sad news today of the passing of Eric Weissberg at age 80. My connection to Eric was a […]
THE SIXTIES GENERATION We lived in a time of fossil fuels Burn up the road – fuck all the rules We lived in a time that was naive Like drunken sailors on shore leave We lived in a time that is long gone And now we’re leaving one by one ©2020 Dave Tutin / openDmusic
Already several years in the making, my third collection of poems will now definitely see the light of day. I just cannot say exactly when. Yet. Here’s a little taste…
Going through some old files I found this. It documents a night back in 2004. Just another New York night. A true story. If we are lucky there are experiences in life that we avoid or at least minimize. And a visit to the emergency room at the hospital is just such an experience. I’ve […]
Seriously…is it just me? I despair sometimes at how difficult basic communication has become. We live in a world that revolves around the written word more than ever before. But when those words are in the form of texts or emails (a dying form that has morphed into something closer to texts) the quality of […]