Ed Charles Music

Year: 2020

A GIFT FROM INSIDE

Since it’s the holiday season, this month’s song is about a gift, one to a very special Holiday. Billie Holiday received her favorite gift from a prisoner – a frame made of matchsticks, “for our picture, when we finally meet.” They never did. But the matchstick frame was Billie’s prize possession, and for years it stood (empty) on her […]

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THE FRIGHT OF REAL LIFE

I moved to the Hudson Valley four years ago. Before then I lived in NYC.  I must’ve lived in at least seven different apartments since the late 1980s. Friends ask me if I miss it. Not for a second. Whenever I even think about the city I find myself silently shaking my head. I remember Hurricane Sandy. […]

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THE “SINGLES” EXPERIMENT

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Sometimes I just sits. I’ve done a good amount of both lately and can’t say which I prefer. I suppose it depends on the circumstances. (Right now, I could do with a healthy dose of the latter.) But after mulling things over, I’ve decided to release a single each month […]

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