Much of the recent cultural conversation appears to reinforce the notion that we are all in this alone. The social contract we began writing in the 1930’s that includes things like Social Security, the GI Bill, the Interstate Highway System, the Voting Rights Act, and Medicare, is now...
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January 26th, 2012The Concert: All the Stages of My Life - Watch VideoAudio Essay: Introducing Mike McCoy - Listen to Audio -
January 4th, 2012Audio Essay: The Mourning Ryde - Listen to Audio
A Moment to Reflect
Lately it seems that while life may take a long time that it is over much too soon. It is hard to believe that I’ve been singing with Mike McCoy for more than forty-six years and it’s been forty-three years since I started singing with The...
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December 28th, 2011The Concert: 1968 - Watch VideoAudio Essay: A Folksinger - Listen to Audio
From the British Invasion to the 1967 Monterey Pops Festival
In 1963 it was cool to call yourself a folk singer. By the time I turned seventeen in March of 1964 The Beatles had appeared and folk music quickly lost its cool and commercial appeal. Roger McGuinn known as Jim McGuinn during...
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December 21st, 2011The Concert: The Missing Peace - Watch VideoAudio Essay: The Missing Peace - Listen to AudioA Page Filled with Gratitude…
One of the best parts of the last year has been having a chance to work with an amazing group of talented people while getting ready to share this journey of songs and stories.
Here are some of the people who are invaluable to the process and... -
December 13th, 2011The Concert: Let Love Go Forward - Watch Video
The Seven Stages of a Journey
This forty-nine week journey is divided into seven stages of seven weeks each. The first seven weeks we will be spending time at the “base camp” telling stories and singing songs. It is also a chance to see how everything is working before we...
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December 2nd, 2011The Concert: One of Those Times in a Life - Watch VideoAudio Essay: One of Those Times in A Life - Listen to Audio
Welcome to the first of 49 weekly episodes to be posted on my website, MarkPearsonMusic.com, as a way of sharing my life and career in songs and stories. Each episode will offer a different song video that can be looked at individually or seen as part of a larger yearlong concert while every...