Rolling Stone Parker Millsap on Why Missed Notes Make the Most Joyful Music
While his new album ‘Be Here Instead’ is a pristine listening experience, the Oklahoma songwriter says, “The point of music is never to hit the notes exactly right”
By Tim Duggan
Parker Millsap has earned a reputation as a spiritually minded, if not outright spiritual, songwriter. The Oklahoma native described his last record as “gospel sex music” and riffed on yogi Ram Dass’s influential book
Be Here Now for the title of his new album:
Be Here Instead.
“Stop looking ahead/be here instead/this is the prayer,” Millsap sings in the hypnotic album track “Now, Here,” a song he wrote before the pandemic. When he revisited the lyrics during pre-production for
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“What is it with lapse in conscience? In the past day or so, I have heard about a few spiritual teachers and authors who have crossed the line in terms of plagiarizing the work of others. I know that doing spiritual work doesn’t make anyone immune to lapses in judgment, but do folks think they won’t get caught and then their reputation is shot? And if they aren’t walking the talk, then their work becomes inauthentic and they are viewed as untrustworthy. I know that it is about the message and not just the messenger, but there are consequences for choices and actions.”
Urvashi Bahuguna s Latest Book on Mental Health Offers Hope for Turbulent Minds No Straight Thing Was Ever Made has 10 deeply honest essays that examine the author s experiences with dating, family, therapists, her writing life, the natural world, arts and social media.
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âOut of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made,â wrote Immanuel Kant in 1784. He was saying that we are made of so many irreconcilable parts that it is impossible to fashion something that makes perfect sense out of it.
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Rolling Stone Menu Pearl Charles Goes Into the Mystic
After making her album
Magic Mirror, the singer-songwriter moved to Joshua Tree and followed the cosmic country path of Gram Parsons
By Fanny Chu
“Do you remember Limited Too?” Pearl Charles asks. She’s trying to trace just how far back her love of ABBA goes, which brings her to the Nineties pre-teen clothing store. “Everything was flower power and bell-bottoms, and I feel like ‘Dancing Queen’ was huge at all the birthday parties. All of that stuff steeped into my brain when I was a little kid, and now it’s all coming out.”