When I Cross Over is such a deep and resonating song. I have told many a friend about the song as we grieve a loss. No words are needed. Just play the song and let it fill you up. Sunday is a song that makes me feel like you wrote it for me. And Bird of Freedom, man...those words grab my heart and soul. I saw your show in Charlotte for Bramble Rose, and I was instantly hooked. I've seen your shows for every album, and if I was lucky, I saw them more than once. I understand that each song takes an enormous amount of blood, sweat and tears. We are very lucky that you share your art with us. Happy Birthday and I wish you much love and peace in your new year.
I think so much of our lives is learning and trying, and then, after much labour; understanding. I think your child will most likely be very proud and strengthened when the time comes that she looks through your life’s notes Tift.
Your writing is so beautiful. I remember you playing at the bar I owned in Charlotte. My old 8mm tapes tell some cool stories of you. I would go
Wild when you looked into my camera! The band talked you into playing the wildest horses are in me. I think that’s the title. Blew my head off! Such passion and beauty. I still have the video. I remember one time at a bar in Charleston, the snare drum broke and you got up on the bar and sang a spiritual sounding, haunting song….while the ceiling fan whirled dangerously close to your head. MAGIC YOU ARE. Beautiful piano. Happy New Year beautiful, wonderful you.
First off - Happy Birthday!! I hope the new piano becomes as integral to your home as your previous one. And wow-what a treasure-trove of paper ‘stuff’. I’m kind of a pack rat and still have a few setlists from your shows going back 20ish years (paper plates anyone‽?). Here’s to a wonderful 2025!!
Happy birthday Tift! Your new decade (welcome to the club!) and your new piano are awesome ways to start the new year. Can't wait to hear the music you'll make with those keys 🎹
Wishing you a Very, Very Happy Milestone 💥 50th Birthday 🎂 today and many, many happy returns of the day to you as well, dearest Tremendous, Transcendent, Timeless 👩🎤 Tift!! 🥳 I hope you have much to be grateful, proud and joyful about in your first half-century of life, and may the next half-century be even better, filled with lots and lots more love, blessings, success, peace and happiness! 🙌 Enjoy your special day with "little lady" Jean 👧 my fetching friend and I send you all my best wishes and love ❤️ as always!! 🎉🎁🎈🕯🎊
Our trek eases with the lightness of the load we carry, so we save the evidence of ourselves in memory and in form. Saving shreds of being is one form of music. Each version a single point in the evolution of a song until it has blossomed into a worthy ballad and is written down. Each piano remembers your touches just as I do when recalling your songs in silence.
PS: was the turnout surprising the venue when you played at Cat's Cradle by any chance?! How cute (and unsurprising) of your Dad to share his half a beer with you. There has to be some sort of award for making a place run out of beer 3 times. Or at least there SHOULD be.
This has also been my dream, yet to be realized (and it's getting late). I have a picture (somewhere) of me on my mom's lap at about 2 years old, picking out a melody on our ancient (even then) upright (Mom said I never just banged on the piano like most of my siblings).
If a baby grand in my life is supposed to be, happen it will.
I hope you have many many tender hours with your new baby.
When I Cross Over is such a deep and resonating song. I have told many a friend about the song as we grieve a loss. No words are needed. Just play the song and let it fill you up. Sunday is a song that makes me feel like you wrote it for me. And Bird of Freedom, man...those words grab my heart and soul. I saw your show in Charlotte for Bramble Rose, and I was instantly hooked. I've seen your shows for every album, and if I was lucky, I saw them more than once. I understand that each song takes an enormous amount of blood, sweat and tears. We are very lucky that you share your art with us. Happy Birthday and I wish you much love and peace in your new year.
I think so much of our lives is learning and trying, and then, after much labour; understanding. I think your child will most likely be very proud and strengthened when the time comes that she looks through your life’s notes Tift.
Tift! I can just hear you playing “A Song For You” on your beautiful black Baby Grand! It looks perfect in your living room too
Your writing is so beautiful. I remember you playing at the bar I owned in Charlotte. My old 8mm tapes tell some cool stories of you. I would go
Wild when you looked into my camera! The band talked you into playing the wildest horses are in me. I think that’s the title. Blew my head off! Such passion and beauty. I still have the video. I remember one time at a bar in Charleston, the snare drum broke and you got up on the bar and sang a spiritual sounding, haunting song….while the ceiling fan whirled dangerously close to your head. MAGIC YOU ARE. Beautiful piano. Happy New Year beautiful, wonderful you.
First off - Happy Birthday!! I hope the new piano becomes as integral to your home as your previous one. And wow-what a treasure-trove of paper ‘stuff’. I’m kind of a pack rat and still have a few setlists from your shows going back 20ish years (paper plates anyone‽?). Here’s to a wonderful 2025!!
Happy birthday Tift! Your new decade (welcome to the club!) and your new piano are awesome ways to start the new year. Can't wait to hear the music you'll make with those keys 🎹
Happy Birthday, fellow Capricorn! You share a birthday with Elvis and David Bowie which surprises me not at all. A very auspicious day to be born.
Wishing you a Very, Very Happy Milestone 💥 50th Birthday 🎂 today and many, many happy returns of the day to you as well, dearest Tremendous, Transcendent, Timeless 👩🎤 Tift!! 🥳 I hope you have much to be grateful, proud and joyful about in your first half-century of life, and may the next half-century be even better, filled with lots and lots more love, blessings, success, peace and happiness! 🙌 Enjoy your special day with "little lady" Jean 👧 my fetching friend and I send you all my best wishes and love ❤️ as always!! 🎉🎁🎈🕯🎊
Our trek eases with the lightness of the load we carry, so we save the evidence of ourselves in memory and in form. Saving shreds of being is one form of music. Each version a single point in the evolution of a song until it has blossomed into a worthy ballad and is written down. Each piano remembers your touches just as I do when recalling your songs in silence.
So beautifully written, as always. Straight from the heart.❤️
PS: was the turnout surprising the venue when you played at Cat's Cradle by any chance?! How cute (and unsurprising) of your Dad to share his half a beer with you. There has to be some sort of award for making a place run out of beer 3 times. Or at least there SHOULD be.
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I still have it on my calendar — hope you're celebrated alllll day long!
How wonderful - I'm so thrilled for you!
This has also been my dream, yet to be realized (and it's getting late). I have a picture (somewhere) of me on my mom's lap at about 2 years old, picking out a melody on our ancient (even then) upright (Mom said I never just banged on the piano like most of my siblings).
If a baby grand in my life is supposed to be, happen it will.
I hope you have many many tender hours with your new baby.