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I moved the previous content of this Home page to the bottom of my About page as I’m getting back into my music and am picking […]

Mohammed Yakub, 64, from Dewsbury, charged with an offence of rape. Nasir Billimoria, 68, from Batley, charged with an offence of rape, and procuring a […]

The Greatest Unknown Guitarist in the World Roy Buchanan’s brother-in-law Phil Clemmons: “’The only thing he ever said about the future was that he wanted […]

 The Tao and The Cadence In the Preface to Tao and Trinity, Scott Austin writes: “The current pressing international situation…demands that Western philosophers and Chinese […]

Opening Medley; Prologue: Cutting Heads; Peter Green’s Charitable Christ; Carlos Santana’s Rainbow Warrior; John Lennon’s Latin Lord; Eric Clapton’s Pieta; Roy Buchanan’s Blues Messiah; Epilogue: […]

Graham Good describes the categories of identity studies: “Each individual belongs to three [categories]: white or nonwhite, male or female, heterosexual or homosexual.  The first […]

Musical Meditations Spiritual Exercises: Contemplation and Meditation In the Introduction to his Spiritual Exercises Ignatius of Loyola states that, “just as taking a walk, traveling […]

Multiculturalism: the Musical advocates a complementarian view of human cultures, as distinct from an egalitarian view.  Diverse musical cutlures can be seen to complement one […]

 A syllogism is coming to me: If the flatted fifth is a tonal symbol of blackness (as is suggested in the words and music of […]

Beethoven Rolls Over: A One-Man Musical by Colin Godbout Calgary Fringe Festival, August 2-11, 7-8 p.m. at Jacqueline Suzanne’s Bistro, 1219 9th Ave.  Review  Monday, […]

The 27 Club, also occasionally known as the Forever 27 Club, Club 27 or the Curse of 27, is the concept that many popular musicians […]

Werckmeister’s Harmonies   Christensen notes that “the simple triadic theories of Lippius and his followers could not account for the increased complexity of dissonance treatment […]

Prologue; Coltrane as Musical Prophet; Excerpts from The Last Gig of J.C.; Coltrane’s Ecclesial Welcome; The Coltranean Key: An Aversion to the Major (Church?) and Affinity for the Minor […]

I regard this this theme and material as a penultimate stage towards defining my Global Guitar genre, which I invite the curious reader to explore. Divinity, […]

Nicholas of Cusa (1400-1464) was a late Medieval/early Renaissance German cardinal, best known as a philosopher.  Today he is probably best known because of Umberto […]

Guitarist Joe Pass said, “To me, there have been only three real innovators on the guitar— Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, and Django Reinhardt.“ Barney Kessel on Django: […]

Good News for Blue Devils; Blues Harmonica; Gospel Blues; Breau’s Bluesy Deity; Coltrane’s Bluesy Psalm; Saint-Martin’s Principles; Brentano’s Flat Seventh as Jesus; Tonicization; The Blues Effect; Eric Clapton and Peter Green; Good Vibrations; Qualifications Concerning Tensional […]

I regard this this theme and material as a penultimate stage towards defining my Global Guitar genre, which I invite the curious reader to explore. Prologue Divinity, […]

Cross six continents on the six strings of Godbout’s global guitar.  From the land of the rising sun to the new world his global guitar […]