David Bruce Anecdotes
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Problem-Solving
• Esther Nichols Wilbur, a Quaker, was fervently anti-slavery, and her house was a station on the Underground Railroad. One day, the local meetinghouse was to be the site of an anti-slavery meeting in the afternoon, but the caretaker was pro-slavery, and he decided to lock the abolitionists out of the meetinghouse after the Quaker worship in the morning. However, following morning worship, Ms. Wilbur remained seated, and she refused to leave despite the threats of the caretaker. Instead, she told him, “I am not preventing thee from locking the doors if thee wants to. I expect to stay for the afternoon meeting.” The caretaker locked the doors and left her, and when it was time for the anti-slavery afternoon meeting, Ms. Wilbur simply unlocked the doors and let everybody else in.
• As preachers’ children, Cecil and Hugh Porter had to be polite to all of their neighbors, even the ones they didn’t like. One day their father, Rev. Edwin Porter, who preached in Texas during the first half of the 20thcentury, discovered that Cecil and Hugh hadn’t ever invited the Smith girls, Lucy and Jenny, to play tennis with them. Therefore, he gave his sons an ultimatum: Either invite the Smith girls to play tennis, or don’t play tennis at all. Cecil and Hugh disliked the Smith girls, but they found a way out of their dilemma. They invited the Smith girls to play tennis in the afternoon of a sweltering Texas summer day. After a few games, the Smith girls decided that they didn’t want to play tennis ever again and so regretfully declined all future invitations.
• Tsukahara Bokuden founded a school of martial arts known as the Way of Winning Without Trying. In the practice of this martial art, the adept wins by figuring out how not to lose. One day Bokuden was traveling in a small boat with a few other people when a warrior on the boat challenged him to a duel. Bokuden suggested that they duel on a near-by small island. When they reached the island, the warrior stepped off the boat, walked onto the island, and unsheathed his sword. However, Bokuden, still standing in the boat, used a pole to shove the boat off the island and into the water, leaving the warrior stranded on the island.
• In the 1850s, several students at Earlham College requested permission to go to the circus, but the Governor of the college said that they could go only as far as the front gate of the campus; therefore, the students removed the front gate and carried it in front of them as they walked to the circus. Once there, they explained the situation to the circus ticket man, who ordered a flap of the tent lifted up so they could bring the front gate inside the tent with them. After seeing the circus, they returned back to the campus and hung the gate where it belonged.
• Taking care of Alzheimer’s patients can be difficult. One Alzheimer’s patient stood near an elevator, far from the place she was supposed to be. Her caretaker asked why she was there, and she replied, “I’m waiting for the bus.” Her caretaker tried without success to get her to return to the place where she was supposed to be, but she resisted. Finally, the caretaker said, “I think the bus company is on strike.” Only then did the Alzheimer’s patient return to where she was supposed to be.
• For many years, golf courses were sexist. At Sandwich, England, the Royal St. George’s golf club did not allow women to become members; in fact, it did not even recognize the existence of women. However, it ran into a “problem” one year when Fiona MacDonald became a member of the Cambridge University golf team, which plays Royal St. George’s each year. After taking thought, the members of Royal St. George’s decided to make Ms. MacDonald an honorary man for the duration of the match.
• Even as a child in Vermont, downhill mountain bike racer Missy Glover was resourceful. Often, she went on long bike rides with neighborhood boys. One evening, a snowstorm blew up suddenly and she and the boys didn’t come home all night. Their parents were frantic, but the next day the children returned home. The boys were shaken, but young Missy was calm and collected as she explained what she had done in the emergency: “I built a shelter, and we sat it out — it was incredible.”
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From The Book of Good Deeds 1914-1918: WORLD WAR I GOOD DEEDS:
I AM not saying anything against my mother: she was a kind woman—and anyway she died two years ago. But she was still alive at the time that I, eighteen years of age, had to go to the war. And so there I stood in the living-room while mother admonished me in something like these words:
“There’s no charm against death and fate, so I can not ask you to be quite sure and come home again; but I must ask you not to confuse strict fulfillment of duty with foolish recklessness. Also I advise you not to accept anything from the people in these foreign countries: enemies are enemies, they poison the water and are forever lying in ambush to shoot at you. If you should ever be suffering from thirst, you must at once ask the Frenchman who gives you water, to drink first himself. Safety first!”
The thought that enemy peasants or townspeople might secretly try to poison me, filled me with such wrath, that I passed on the word to all my gray-clad comrades: “Let them drink first, always let them drink first.”
Well, one day we marched into Neuvilly, which lies about fifty kilometers southeast of Cambrai. And these fifty kilometers we poor Jerries had to march in the scorching sun, with only two short rests; and even then no one was allowed to lie down. You could just rest your pack on the end of your gun, your back was raw like burned flesh, your feet covered with blisters; and thirst, thirst, thirst. Our flasks were long ago dry, for sweating infantrymen are bad managers. I personally, when I had to blow my nose once, found the handkerchief covered with blood.
Finally Neuvilly was reached; we fairly stormed the houses: Water, water! Gasping with thirst we besieged pumps and wells, there were terrible fights with bare fists, and violent blows: and who remembered “Let them drink first”? I would not join my comrades in their gory struggle, so I approached the farmhouse where I was to be quartered, and right there on the doorstep stood a withered old woman with pitcher and cup. She smirked suspiciously, but I was so thirsty I let her pour it out, then shouted at the old mummy “Drink first: boire d’abord.”
The old woman understood at once, her smile changed to bitter contempt. She drank from the cup, however, so I could take the small enamel mug and I emptied it greedily. My room was clean, the bed smelled of lawn-bleached linen. It was the one and only time as a soldier that I had a real bed (not counting the weeks in hospital—but a man riddled with bullets does not think any more, he just endures the agony, internal as well as external) . For the rest, I found myself in a country laborer’s house in which the old woman alone remained. On the wall hung a cheap crucifix and under it Chamfort’s soldierly motto:
Guerre aux chateaux! Paix aux chaumieres!
War to the castles! Peace to the cottages!
Peace to the cottages! Let them drink first? Someone was inconsistent: either I myself or the warty old dame. Suddenly someone knocked, the old woman was once more in the room: she had forgotten something. What followed? … She placed a framed photograph of a French recruit on my bedside-table. It was a silly, cheap portrait, of the kind that our businesslike garrison photographers also were turning out in heaps. And what was the old thing muttering? “Here, camarade … la guerre, my son!” At that she disappeared, grunting reproaches and with an offended air. What was I to do with a picture of an enemy soldier on my bedside-table?
We remained in Neuvilly a whole week. Grave events were impending; hell was loose on the Somme; by day we performed elaborate field maneuvers, at night airplanes dropped bombs on the villages. Every evening I would return dead-tired to my quarters; the old woman avoided making any more scenes. Until one day—it was an unforgettable Sunday morning—the French local parson came to the house, and when he went away after an hour, the old lady came and knocked at my door, trembling and streaming tears. Had I called?
Yes, I had called, I wanted some water, this summer thirst was really unbearable … At once the woman brought what I had asked for, but as she stood holding the pitcher and cup she sobbed terribly and pointed to the picture of her son “Oh camarade, dead, la guerre, la guerre!”
What I did at this moment, anyone will understand who has been able to keep his heart pure and simple— in spite of all the wild events of war. I cried aloud as though someone had reported to me the death of my own brother. The old woman tried again dutifully to “drink first,” but I tore the cup and pitcher from her hands in shame. “Nix boire d’abord, ma mère!”
“My mother” had I said? How did I come to it? No, this woman would no longer drink first; and as I took the old creature tenderly in my arms, and laid my hand on her trembling head, I paid secret tribute by that gesture to the grave of the unknown soldier, whose mother wished to be the mother of every son.
That evening I wrote to my mother in Cologne “… and you can say what you like: mothers remain mothers, in France as well as in Germany and you can’t ask them to drink first. If you had any idea how ashamed I was when, six days ago, I scorned the smile of a mother who was only going to quench my thirst because she was thinking of her own son …”
By Heinz Steguweit, Author, Cologne-Klettenberg.
ADAM REMNANT
“Adam Remnant is a songwriter, producer, and photographer living in Athens, Ohio. Remnant got his start in music fronting the folk-rock band Southeast Engine. As the principal singer and songwriter of the band, Remnant and his bandmates garnered critical acclaim from publications such as Paste Magazine, Pitchfork, NPR, American Songwriter, Magnet, Stereogum, PopMatters, AV Club, and many more. They established a substantial following over the years, releasing five albums and touring across the United States and Canada.
“As Southeast Engine wound down, Remnant began plotting his way forward as a solo artist. He assembled a little studio in his basement and earnestly began writing & recording the songs that comprise the 2016 EP, When I Was a Boy, as well as the 2018 LP, Sourwood. Remnant’s signature baritone voice and literary songwriting act as the focal point in the productions spanning between folk, rock, and indie sounds mined from a Midwest basement.
“In the summer of 2019, Remnant took up film photography as a new means of artistic expression. Remnant’s photography explores many of the same themes of his music, including place, memory, history, and identity. Remnant typically shoots landscape/documentary style color photos of his surroundings as well as neighboring towns and cities.
“Remnant continues to work on new music, including a recently completed full length album, entitled Big Doors. An EP tentatively titled Rainy Day Savings is also in the works. The new recordings are performed by Adam Remnant and his working band, consisting of brother, Jesse Remnant, on bass and harmony vocals; Ryan Stolte-Sawa on violin and harmony vocals, and Jon Helm on drums.”
Adam Remnant on Bandcamp
https://adamremnant.bandcamp.com
Adam Remnant Official Website
Adam Remnant on YouTube
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Adam Remnant Photography
https://www.adamremnant.com/photography
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Adam Remnant on SoundCloud
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Adam Remnant on iHeart
https://www.iheart.com/artist/adam-remnant-31287218/
Adam Remnant: “Ohio”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxfAfYDzPNQ
Adam Remnant: “Three Days”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlOwxr304c
Adam Remnant: Basement Tapes — “She has a Way of Finding Me Out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZocFYnqCxE
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Adam Remnant: “Run of the Mill” (George Harrison cover on 4-track cassette)
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Adam Remnant with Mery Steel: “She Has a Way of Finding Me Out”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtwMmsD8J4w&list=PL3X4xRPh97Z9zZDxmcV5OSGEhogUHrJYy&index=2
Caitlin Kraus: “Follow Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdywiZXm2nc
“A huge and sincere thank you to Adam Remnant for his direction of the video and to the Hocking College students listed in the following credits: AC – Alex Rhinehart & Najayah Shepard; Grips – Alex Rhinehart, Alexis Pariseau, Najayah Shepard, Nate Ruhl, & Richard Valentine; On-set Photographer – Ivan Reardon.” — Caitlin Kraus
Supernobody: “Sheep”
“Lead track from Supernobody album YOU CAN’T GO BACK. This video was made by Adam Remnant and his video production team at Hocking College in Nelsonville, OH 2019.”
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ADAM REMNANT PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlOwxr304c&list=PL3X4xRPh97Z9zZDxmcV5OSGEhogUHrJYy
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SOUTHEAST ENGINE ALBUMS
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote, “There is joyousness unrestrained by inhibition in the songwriting of Southeast Engine. [Canary] is my favourite album of theirs. Wonderful! Favorite track: ‘Red Lake Shore.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about CANAANVILLE, “This was the last recording released by Southeast Engine. It’s only four songs, but they are four songs of such magnificence that we wonder what this band could have become. Favorite track: ‘Great Awakening.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about FROM THE FOREST TO THE SEA, “A very well put-together album. Each song flows into the next. A proper album. Favorite track: ‘Preparing for the Flood.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about A WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL, “There’s a real retro feel to this album. Like with The Jayhawks, you get a real sense that these tunes could have originated from the 60s or 70s. Favorite track: ‘Oh God, Let Me Back In.’”
davekillcountysmith, a fan, wrote about COMING TO TERMS WITH GRAVITY, “I love this band’s sound. There’s a bit of Americana, a bit of indie, a bit of folk and even a bit of psych. They are probably what Dr Dog would sound like if they weren’t so mad. Favorite track: ‘Undergrad.’”
ADAM REMNANT ALBUMS
SUNRISE AT THE SUNSET MOTEL (EP)
SOURWOOD
WHEN I WAS A BOY
ADRIANNA ALBANESE
Adriana Albanese on YouTube
“On this channel, I will be posting covers of songs I enjoy, or are popular at the moment. I also will post some original songs that I’ve written! Please feel free to leave your thoughts in the comment section, so I can always be improving, and having something to post! I hope you enjoy what you see and decide to stay! I will be playing guitar and singing songs pretty much 😉 I also play ukulele, so some songs will be played with that. Anyway, welcome to my channel, and most importantly, have fun while you’re here!”
https://www.youtube.com/@adriannaalbanese/videos
Adriana Albanese on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0KOQCfjnV0CtCZ6uUcMa3m
Adriana Albanese: Topic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzmSIwTM_oxDNPYShIgPRKA
Adrianna Albanese: “Dandelions and Wildflowers” lyric video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03hVcM9iyd4
Adrianna Albanese: “Forever” (Talent Show 2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGcZVDYMb60
Adrianna Albanese: “Lingering State of Mind”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kj06ExJfps
Adrianna Albanese: “Sometimes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5O9g12CCU
Adrianna Albanese: “I’m Glad You’re Here”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3Qc3VBbnU
Adrianna Albanese: “Overthinking Everything”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRbOD5J5zrk&list=OLAK5uy_melg5X88X2hdY8BhTC85aW-NFAMx0uaVQ
ALBERT ROUZIE
Albert Rouzie on Bandcamp
https://albertrouzie.bandcamp.com
Albert Rouzie on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Yopt8yXOI77EadEIm8M9X
Albert Rouzie — Topic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-LwRbqouX8nCKQKeMvao_w
Albert Rouzie — Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/rouziesongs/
Albert Rouzie: “Man on the Roof”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SVrqUHs5f8
Albert Rouzie: “Granpa’s Guitar”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAHQVxh5fM
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Albert Rouzie: “Miss Molly”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJ7MX2ptPI
ALBUMS
Late for the War
https://www.amazon.com/Late-War-Albert-Rouzie/dp/B0BS9DQYNL/
Dreams
https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Albert-Rouzie/dp/B09XV2H5KH/
Riding the Whirlwind
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0878RQHB7/
Songs of Love and Debacle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CX5FSM8/
BILLY RHINEHART
BILLY RHINEHART: HEAVY ORCHIDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5boJYXbktw
https://www.amazon.com/Orchids-Tattoo-Dances-Rhinehart-2002-01-15/dp/B01AB9DOZW
LIVE FROM HOME: BILLY RHINEHART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
William “Billy” Rhinehart: “Over Here and Far Away”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_6hrVj4X_k
TONY XENOS on the Billy and Brucie Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8rwjpM9ZY
ATHENS, OHIO (AND ENVIRONS) SINGER-SONGWRITERS ON BANDCAMP AND/OR LIVE FROM HOME
All musical friends of Bruce Dalzell are honorary Athenians no matter where they live and love. And as is well known, Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee are very large suburbs of Athens, Ohio.
Adam Remnant
Albert Rouzie
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Gifts”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Angela Perley
Angela Perley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “What is This You Have Done to Me”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mregk-X_Llg
Angela Perley: 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh1CEb8b_yw
Angela Perley & The Howlin’ Moons at 2016 Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoUV7-q_ISY
Angie Heimann
Angie Heimann: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Girl with the Chestnut Hair”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue6ooyuPpgI
Attila Horvath
Ben Davis, Jr.
Ben Davis, Jr.: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Leaves”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKq8s7tQ8d4
Billy Rhinehart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Simple as I Look”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
Bob Stewart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Morning Turn”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuQ1ZpwjNY
Bruce and Gay Dalzell: Live From Home (Holiday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLetQfocFGA
Bruce Dalzell’s album LIVE FROM HOME is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3S7VLVJ/
Burger Big
Caitlin Kraus
Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Caitlin Kraus: 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJFIal2SyU
Camille Karavas: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Heard You Talking in My Sleep”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FE6ueEeZs
Carrie Elkin
Carrie Elkin: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Gift”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69Emfug1bw
Corbin Marsh Band
Dallas Craft
Dan Canterbury: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Diary of a Turtle”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcao2v5g0I
Danny Schmidt
Danny Schmidt: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Bovine Serenade”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBPv2RNuzY
Dave “Hedgehog” Mason
Don Baker: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Billy and Jenny and Joe”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5xqJX9Vq4
Donna Mogavero: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Restless Night”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KI8rMXiq0
Drift Mouth
Eric Gnezda: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFDnzfEDV4
Harlan Dalzell: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of Harlan Dalzell’s “Annalee”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVlLX923HM
Jesse Remnant
Jordan Tice
Jordan Tice: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Stuff of Dreams”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrfY6QP4k0
Keith Larsen: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Long Time”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIV13letIk
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Kim Richey
Kim Richey: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Visit”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BPWKgada4
Larry Elefante
Liz Woolley
Liz Woolley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Madeleine”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrrMtOEPJY
The Liz Woolley Band
Lost Orchards (Ron Freeman)
Mark Hellenberg (drummer)
Mark Sims
Megan Bee
Megan Bee: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Cannot Look Away”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frS-AXopsnQ
Megan Wren: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The COVID Waltz”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2-2wAFDWg
Michael Rinaldi-Eichenberg
Mike Ratliff
Nathan Zangmeister: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Taking the Long Way Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2CHeFb_Kw
Nick Vandenberg
Nick Vandenberg: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Astronomic Principle, or When You Come Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBLap2HcCw
No Stars
Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of “My Neighborhood,” previously recorded by Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcuXJdIeoA
Rachel Figley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Trick of the Light”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXqHfxpRYY
Rachel Mousie
Rachel Mousie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Late November”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHh1S9-waY
Rusty Smith and Friends
Sneakthief
Scott Minar: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Sorrows of Late Day”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8XRA9PUmg
Steve Zarate
Steve Zarate: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Early September”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVY6t5zZmM
Supernobody (with Matt Box)
Todd Burge
Todd Burge: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Things I am for You”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGPI43gjqQ
Vincent Trocchia
Vincent Trocchia: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRD1DKnRk3Q
William Matheny
William Matheny: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Don’t Know Why”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcmUVpjVhk
Wolfmen
Woody Pines
The Corbin Marsh Band EP (FREE DOWNLOAD)
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RETELLINGS OF A CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE
Arden of Faversham: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Arraignment, or Poetaster: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Case is Altered: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Catiline’s Conspiracy: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Epicene: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The New Inn, or The Light Heart: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Sejanus’ Fall: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays: Retellings
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Retellings of the 1604 A-Text and of the 1616 B-Text
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Jew of Malta: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2: Retellings
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose
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Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
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CAITLIN KRAUS
Caitlin Kraus (she/her), LPCC, MT-BC
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Music Therapist – Board Certified
Ohio University Counseling & Psych Services
Follow OU Counseling & Psych Services on Twitter at @OHIO_Counseling
Check out: Togetherall & WellTrack
CAITLIN KRAUS MUSIC
CAITLIN KRAUS ON INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/caitlinkrausmusic/
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https://www.facebook.com/caitlinkrausmusic
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https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/7G2SiE8RWYUMZWLX1iGLPz?autoplay=true
CAITLIN KRAUS ON YOUTUBE MUSIC
https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCWt9a1zAjicyED4CuT-PEXw
CAITLIN KRAUS: GONE BEYOND album
https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gone-beyond
CAITLIN KRAUS: WHAT RISES album
https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-rises
CAITLIN KRAUS: “Waiting for the World” / “Dead Man” EP
https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dead-man-waiting-for-the-world
Hart, Bob: “Caitlin Kraus: Making her own kind of music.” The Athens News. 19 December 2023
“It was a song called ‘Garden’ that did it for me. Perhaps only when a musical artist writes deeply personal lyrics do their words become universal, belying the specifics of their own situation and emotions to touch others on an intimate level. That song and many other good ones are on the CD “Gone Beyond,” by Caitlin Kraus. It’s her second recorded collection (following “What Rises”) and is available through many outlets, including caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com, Spotify and Apple Music.”…
Caitlin Kraus: “Gone Beyond” (Caitlin Kraus performs “Gone Beyond” Aug. 17, 2023, at the Athens (OH) Community Center.) — From the album GONE BEYOND.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4zFYr55b5E
Caitlin Kraus: “Gone Beyond” — From the album GONE BEYOND.
Caitlin Kraus, Matt Box on bass, and Mark Hellenberg on drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBPdMZoB7vs
Caitlin Kraus: “Make It Clear” (Caitlin Kraus performs “Make It Clear” Aug. 17, 2023, at the Athens (OH) Community Center.) — From the album GONE BEYOND.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1isFj2Oxiu4
Caitlin Kraus: “Strange Other” (Caitlin Kraus performs “Strange Other” Aug. 17, 2023, at the Athens (OH) Community Center.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Wc3pkXIiA
Caitlin Kraus at the 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJFIal2SyU
Caitlin Kraus: “Follow Me” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdywiZXm2nc
It is a very special honor to have completed this music video for “Follow Me,” which was directed by the wonderful Adam Remnant who also recorded the song itself back in 2016. We collaborated on the concepts in the video and spent a chilly, beautiful spring day filming it with his talented students (listed below) at the Nelsonville, OH brick kilns, Hocking River, and surrounding neighborhood. For me, the lyrics and music of this song portray real imagery and memories that have grown dream-like with the passing of time, yet still remain formative and foundational. At its core, it is about transformation and being/becoming, but I hope the ambiguity and symbolism of the song and video also lead to your own interpretation and that you can find something resonant within it. Lyrics and digital/CD format available at caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com. Music website at caitlinkrausmusic.com.
A huge and sincere thank you to Adam Remnant for his direction of the video and to the Hocking College students listed in the following credits: AC – Alex Rhinehart & Najayah Shepard; Grips – Alex Rhinehart, Alexis Pariseau, Najayah Shepard, Nate Ruhl, & Richard Valentine; On-set Photographer – Ivan Reardon
“Follow Me” is featured on the full-length 2020 release WHAT RISES and includes myself on vocals/guitar, Adam Remnant on bass/drums/keyboard, and Hannah Simonetti on violin. The song was recorded and mixed by Adam in Athens, OH while the full album was produced, mixed, and mastered by Bernie Nau at Peachfork Studios in Pomeroy, OH (https://peachforkstudios.com/).
Caitlin Kraus: “This Body”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9Kp-P3oio
Notes for “This Body”:
A song for the rights of all: the right to be safe in our bodies, the right to make decisions for our bodies, and the right to be who we are in our bodies. (Lyrics below.) I wrote this song […] out of the need to process my anger at women’s rights being taken away and for what this means for other rights down the line. A never-ending issue it seems, but one we can’t stop fighting for. A big thank you to Tom Riggs for taking footage of my first performance of this song with Mark Hellenberg on drums at The Union in Athens, OH.
Lyrics for “This Body”:
This body is temporary, but while it’s here / It’s not yours to hold captive in fear / This body is mine, it was never yours / So fuck your laws and gods and guns / I get to say what I put inside / I GET TO CHOOSE, IT IS MY RIGHT / This body is sacred, but only safe / When I’m in charge, you have no claim / This body is proud and wears the crown / Makes the decisions and won’t back down / I get to say what I put inside / I GET TO CHOOSE, IT IS MY RIGHT / And don’t tell me who I can love or about my identity / Don’t use your privilege to subject your patriarchy / I get to say what I put inside / I GET TO CHOOSE, IT IS MY RIGHT
Caitlin Kraus: “What Rises” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoD-LgA6qUg
Caitlin Kraus: “Pink Cloud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC8sNynVLUo
Caitlyn Kraus: Boogie on the Bricks (10 August 2019) — Athens, Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtxfc4dMprM
Caitlin Kraus: Interview and “Waiting for the World”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPoahBWpuys
Caitlin Kraus: “Follow Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9yePPAwOa8
Caitlin Kraus Torres: “Dead Man” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brtzE73ZGsg
Caitlin Kraus: Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpk-Wyr1aTw
Caitlin Kraus: “On the Way Down” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNioAruv6SA
Caitlin Kraus: “Synchronicity” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdNN1MD-Og
Caitlin Kraus: “All Along”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfrySyGEnR0
Caitlin Kraus Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4_ulcpWBI0
Caitlyn Kraus: “Dead Man” on SA Live (KSAT-TV) — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCcPpJymcg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTQruwqEa_LjrqQBZy2lUww
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8cBT8QZwxhfta7xZBtPJOUspm3GMO7NA
Caitlin Kraus: Ohio University Adjunct Professor of Music Therapy
https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/music/ck294906
Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Dead Man” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16d-52JL-I
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Locket” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj84dLCtzwc
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “On My Knees”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg97-pfc5qs
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Follow Me” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFIXQEYInRg
Caitlin Kraus: “Waiting for the World” / “Dead Man”
Caitlin Kraus Torres: “Fill Your Heart” (David Bowie Cover)
Caitlin Kraus: “Waiting for the World” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eBknAqMHlQ
Caitlin Kraus: “Full Bloom” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37Io7QofGQ
Caitlin Kraus: “Make Love Stay” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOFyvkjHvrk
Caitlin Kraus: “By Dark” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JuJpCqmiY
Caitlin Kraus: “Down to You” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ykF7XPGYk
Interview & Article for WOUB Public Media (8/6/2020): Interview about upcoming performance for the Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival, history as a songwriter and musician, and experiences as a performer during the pandemic.
https://woub.org/2020/08/06/virtual-nelsonville-music-festival-interviews-caitlin-kraus/
Article for WOUB Public Media (10/12/2017): Article about Caitlin’s path as both a songwriter and musician as well as a music therapist.
https://woub.org/2017/10/12/caitlin-kraus-a-twofold-journey/
OVRLD Austin Music First (6/13/2016): “On her new single ‘Waiting for the World,’ Caitlin Kraus’ sweetly shimmering voice rises out of an oceanic musical backing, giving the track a melancholic feel, like a reinterpretation of The Awakening’s bitter conclusion. Kraus’ voice is powerful but not in a bombastic sense, it’s instead devastating in its emotional richness. The well-arranged strings that emerge after the beginning of the song aid in this, making ‘Waiting for the World’ an excellent bit of chamber pop that stands out for the frequently unimaginatively produced singer songwriter tracks Austin is oversaturated with.”
https://ovrld.com/latest-toughs/kodachrome-borzoi-kydd/
Caitlin Kraus: “Golden and Blue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbKehHLggk
Caitlin Kraus: “Enough”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkgVzxvaJZs
Caitlin Kraus: “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59QD1DArxqI
Caitlin Kraus at the Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNzx2J44W4k
Suggested Listening ’23: Caitlin Kraus Suggests Good Music to Listen To
Caitlin Kraus is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Board-Certified Music Therapist providing services to students at Ohio University in Athens, OH. When she is not counseling, Caitlin is an active musician and songwriter, performing her music both solo and with a band under her name. She has released two full-length albums from Peachfork Studios: “Gone Beyond” (2023) and “What Rises” (2020). She also sings and plays in the band Drift Mouth. She is the proud companion of two wonderful dogs.
Some of the music choices presented here were not actually released in 2023 as I am usually a time traveler when it comes to music. While it was hard to choose only 10 albums/artists and songs, this is some of the music that I happened to listen to often in 2023 and which personally resonated the most. It is presented in no particular order. I hope you can enjoy it along with me!
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Good & Green Again (2022)
The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (2022)
Nina Simone – You’ve Got to Learn (Recorded Live at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival; Released in 2023)
Marina Allen – Candlepower (2021)
Drugdealer – Raw Honey (2019)
The Roches – The Roches (1979)
Labi Siffre – Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying (1971)
S.G. Goodman – Teeth Marks (2022)
Esther Rose – Safe To Run (2023)
The GTOs – Permanent Damage (1969)
See below link for Caitlin Kraus’ commentary:
https://woub.org/2023/12/11/suggested-listening-23-caitlin-kraus/
DRIFT MOUTH: “Starling”
Drift Mouth opens its Jan. 13, 2024, set at The Union in Athens, OH, with “Starling.” Lou Poster on lead vocals and guitar, Caitlin Kraus guitar, David Murphy drums, Nate Brite bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgHzWMLFV0M
TOM RIGGS: Music to Consider (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/@riggsviews
Tom Riggs is famous for recording local and regional (and national and international) music and posting the videos on YouTube.
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