April 2020

Babushka

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“Babushka”Composed and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek copyright Zino-Rephi Music (BMI) Maybe it’s just me but this current situation has me reviewing my early life. Memories of the first years of my life are floating past in cascades. Which leads me to this song and memory. A babushka is a term for a headscarf and also a Slavic term for […]

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Reverie

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I had a brief (two albums) association with chromatic harmonica player Clint Hoover. In the space of about two years, we played lots of gigs and made nice music with Matt Senjem on bass and Michael Bissonnette on percussion. Then Clint moved to Pittsburgh.  This song, “Reverie,” is a tune I wrote specifically for East Side which is what we

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