Well, I would swear that was a klezmer break I heard in the middle of the Tom Waits song we were listening to in the car as we drove through Ohio Sunday night.

From Klez to Tom to my autoharp... I am sure it will come out in something I play.

There also is a movement on now in Christian praise and church services toward Davidic forms of worship, including setting Psalms back to Hebrew melody forms. Several pieces I now are already in this genre. This affects not only the acoustic worshop music but leaks over into the approach our band takes on folk tunes... new rhythms and harmonies, modes come into play as alternative ways to do familiar folk pieces.

I think our souls are non-denominational... and that music comes from and goes to that place in us that Christians talk about in connection with Pentecost-- when all the cultural and language barriers suddenly became irrelevant as, for a brief moment, people simply were together in the spirit and had no divisions to be concerned about.

I think music, whether intentionally spiritual or not, is always a possible shortcut to that state of being, within ourselves and with each other, and with the spiritual universe I think nearly all of us would agree is a reality-- no matter how we fuss over the outer trappings we can see here on earth.

I think that is why some broken Mudcat relationhips have seen the beginning of healing at HearMe.

~Susan