Words & Music by Mike Power

Tag: acoustic

  • Observations – Track 8

    Track 8 – Keep Your Eyes Wide The last song on the album is also the last one I wrote for this collection. It was written in the early days of the pandemic, when I was seriously quarantining. I didn’t leave the building for months. All the horrors of disease and death were so close…

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  • Observations – Track 6

    Track 6 – I Love You So Bad It Hurts I probably like this song more than it deserves. Most of the things I like have that effect on me. I particularly enjoy the way that the last line of each verse repeats the first line but from a slightly different perspective. I also like…

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  • Day 49

    Day 49 – Total confirmed cases in US: 1,133,069 This is a good time to keep your eyes wide. Like a cat in the dark, there are many things, unseen by most, that can nourish you and help you grow if you can find them. For those who can see the inevitable changes coming to…

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  • Coming Full Circle in NYC

    Thirty five years ago, I moved to New York City, into a friend’s apartment at 4 Saint Mark’s Place. On September 22, I will be performing a show at the Kraine Theater, four blocks away from that first apartment. I’ll be playing songs that I wrote during the years I lived in Greenwich Village, songs I wrote…

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  • One night only…

    Please note that this post will remain at the top of my blog until the show. Scroll down for more recent posts. For one night only – Sunday, September 22 – you (yes, you) can experience a show that is a little different from other shows you’ve seen. I hope you will come to the…

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