B&L: What animal (what mammal) do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Mike Merenda: We try to be representatives of all the best things Mammals are capable of being, namely making music and spreading love. B&L: Why music? Why do you seek it? Why do you create it? How’d it come calling […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? John Hammond: A work horse. B&L: Why music? Why do you seek it? What keeps you inspired to keep at it after all these years? Hammond: It’s one of those things you can’t explain. It has always been with me even as […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Ramsey: Black bear – I’ve had multiple vivid dreams that involved a black bear guiding me through the wilderness and helping me through obstacles in my path. I also spend a lot of time in the woods here in NC and relate to them […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Erelli: How have I been doing this 20 years and never been asked that question? I’ll go with a salamander. They don’t hurt anybody, and whenever you flip a log over and find one it’s always exciting. That seems like a pretty […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Lou Barlow: I love ducks. they’ve got everything but hands… Do I associate myself with ducks? as I get older will my relatives only purchase duck-related gifts for me? no.. I don’t think I’m a duck.. I admire ducks, but no animal is as […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Peter Mulvey: I have a barred owl tattooed on my arm. I was just in a thicket by the Bark River in Fort Atkinson, WI, my temporary home, and saw a barred owl and her mate. It was thrilling. I so emphatically […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Kendl Winter: Yellow labs, seals, black bears, wolves, and humuhumunukunukuapua’a (AKA reef triggerfish – Google it). B&L: Why music? Why do you seek it? Why do you create it? Winter: It’s crucial medicine for ourselves and a way to connect and share with community. […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Delmhorst: Deer and great blue herons leap to mind, in a pretty unconsidered way. B&L: Why music? Why do you seek it? Why do you create it? Delmhorst: It’s the most reliable conduit I know to the deeper layers of humanness, emotion, […]
B&L: What animal do you associate yourself with (given our ties to oxen)? Walsh: Being a transplanted Midwesterner I’ve got to say cow. B&L: Why music? Why do you seek it? Why do you create it? How’d it come calling to you? Walsh: Music is a way to talk about life with out having to […]
Suitcase Junket will play two special shows this weekend, beginning on Friday, September 29th at the Firehouse Center for the Arts for the Arts in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Saturday, September 30th at the Word Barn in Exeter, New Hampshire. The oxen tracked him down to ask him a few more questions (click here for the […]