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Exclusive interview for Sidetracks And Detours: delivering APPLIED ARTS with Jeff Sleeman

I think my focus at the moment is on the library film, which is called Between The Lines and rolling that out on tour sometime in the summer.

INDIANA JONES ON HIS LAST CRUSADE

There is a street along to the church in Haria town centre that is, in December, a little piece of heaven in a world that feels at the moment like it is taking us to hell in a hand-cart. The trees are tastefully draped in single colour lighting (left) and the church is floodlit. Either side of dusk there are two or three welcoming restaurants, street markets stalls serving mulled wine and such, and couple and families, tourists and locals taking a gentle evening stroll.

ELVIS COSTELLO: seeing himself as a songwriter

It's how rock and roll works. You take the broken pieces of another thrill and make a brand new toy. That's what I did
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Sculptor, JASON de CAIRES TAYLOR continues to inspire

I don´t believe that art can exist in isolation. Da Vinci´s Mona Lisa surely speaks in some way, even smiles in some way, to characters in crayon-drawings by five year olds, and the stone horses of The Rising Tide discuss the state of the world with all who ever stop to look at them, in different light and waterscape depending on the time of the day. The work itself surely engages in conversation, even if not in agreement, with the Another Place exhibition / installation placed on the Crosby coastline in the UK by Antony Gormley.

THE FLATLANDERS: Treasure Of Love

To understand the Flatlanders and the unique alchemy that melds the diverse range of Hancock's mystical panhandle poetry, Ely's roots-rock drive, and Gilmore's emotional hillbilly twang, there's no better document than their currrent album Treasure of Love.

The concluding part (5) of Sidetracks And Detours´ inaugural, annual Here´s To The Ladies in-print festival: NANCI GRIFFITH: A Poetess Among Cowboys

she remained inalterably rooted in Texas

Day four of Sidetracks And Detours´ inaugural Here´s To The Ladies in-print Festival featuring MINNIE DRIVER: ´a no-nonsense conversationalist!

I don’t think there’s actually been a better time for funny female writers, actors, directors…´
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day three of Sidetracks And Detours inaugural Here´s To The Ladies in-print Festival 2022. MARTHA WAINWRIGHT: Love Will Be Reborn

´If I leave my children to their own devices, someone will come back with a bloody nose´, she said, grimacing. ´They’re like me and my brother Rufus – we fought a lot, it was very scrappy. I think one of them really needs to hurt the other to learn the lesson´.
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Sidetracks And Detours. Here´s To The Ladies 2022, an inaugural in-print festival EMMYLOU HARRIS

In America, it was like the end of innocence, a terrible, horrifying thing. There was a blackness, a cloud over everyone. So when the Beatles came along with their great haircuts and joyful music, it was like the clouds parted, the sun came out and it was all right to be happy and feel innocence again.
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Sidetracks And Detours. Here´s To The Ladies 2022, an inaugural in-print festival DIANE WARREN:

“To me it’s like, ‘This is a great song, let’s get it on the radio!’ But it’s like, ‘Well, no, you have to build a story.’ Fuck that. If the Beatles or Prince existed now, I have no idea how that would have worked. They would have had to do TikTok campaigns and if that didn’t work, the label wouldn’t push their music. Who the fuck knows? But it still comes down to an undeniable song. I still believe that.”