Burke’s Blog

I would like to encourage all of my readers to go to a new website about New Orleans music called Y’HEARD!. The Web address is http://yheard.com.
In it you will find updates about live shows, CD reviews, and features that spotlight some of the city’s unique musical character. It is intended for fans as well as [...]

 
There is a song that I used to love that I just found again.  It’s called “Flying Red Horse” by John Gorka.  It’s about the red horse from the Mobil Gas stations setting herself free from the sign.  Sounds like she is a mare.  John Gorka has the most beautiful baritone voice and is a [...]

I have already written about obstacles to touring Catholic musicians, and why it is hard to market Catholicism.  Now I would like to address why the mainstream music recording industries cannot make a profit from music informed by the Catholic world view.
The music industry has its own methods of promoting and distributing product, but the [...]

The first part of a look into Catholicism and the modern music industry.

The time for for renewing our culture into one of light and life via new intellectual and artistic paradigms has never been so ripe as it is today. Communication on a worldwide level is so simple now. The Internet, for one, is a tool that can possibly assist in bringing us closer.  In every region, city, [...]