On this day in music history - Into The Mist, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2017)

Into the Mist

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

was released on April 1, 2017.

Track list:

A Walk In The Park; Moon Over The Lotus Pond; Opus: Into The Mist (Part 1); Opus: Mist Rising (Part 2); Opus: Mist Before Dawn (Part 3); Through Cloud; Feeling Sunshine; Grey Sky Morning; Galloping; The Void.

On this day in music history - The album Head or Heart, by Christina Perri (2014)

Head or Heart

by Christina Perri

was released on April 1, 2014.

Track list:

Trust; burning gold; be my forever (feat. Ed Sheeran); human; one night; i dont wanna break; sea of lovers; the words; lonely child; run; butterfly; shot me in the heart; i believe.

Harlan Ellison, on writing:

 

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing,
that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that.

You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.

- Harlan Ellison.

Recommended reading - The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

by Budd Schulberg.

First published 1947.
Published by Ivan R. Dee.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1566631076
ISBN-13: 978-1566631075

Description:

Brilliant, witty, and amusing...the best book on fighting that I have read. – Gene Tunney.

The book will stand not only as the novel about boxing but also as a book that indirectly tells more about civilization than do most books about civilization itself. – Arthur Miller.

The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption. – USA Today.

Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent - and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers. Mr. Schulberg creates a wonderfully authentic atmosphere for this book that many critics hailed as even better than What Makes Sammy Run? The wrongs of the boxing business that the book illuminates are still with us.

Born on this day – Johann Sebastian Bach:

Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer

March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750

Johann Sebastian Bach portrait

by Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1748).

Born on this day – Joseph Haydn:

Joseph Haydn

Composer

March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809

Joseph Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy (1791).

Born on this day – Etta Baker:

Etta Baker

Blues singer

Guitarist

Banjoist

March 31, 1913 – September 23, 2006

Albums:

Banjo (2009); Carolina Breakdown (2005); Etta Baker with Taj Mahal (2004); Instrumental Music from the Southern Appalachians (1956); Knoxville Rag, with Kenny Wayne Shepherd (2006); One-Dime Blues (1991); Railroad Bill (1999); Railroad Bill (2015); The North Carolina Banjo Collection (1998).