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Sean McCollough is a user-friendly musician.
As the co-lead singer-songwriter with The Lonetones, he typically performs for adult audiences. But for more than 20 years, he also has performed specifically for children and families as a solo artist. For the past seven years, too, he's hosted "Kidstuff," the Saturday-morning children's show on WDVX. His new album, "Earworm," is a one of those rare creations that is made for children but that won't drive adults crazy. In fact, the latter group might find itself listening to it when the kids aren't around.
"I'm always trying to figure out what is that way that I can engage a fairly wide age range," says McCollough over lunch at La Esperanza in North Knoxville. "So, for instance, with the 'Earworm' song, I think grown-ups appreciate the verses, and everyone appreciates the 'uh-ohs,' and I do hand motions for little kids. But I did it for a high school the other day and did the hand motions, and they all loved it."
McCollough chuckles. A self-described "child of hippies," he spent his early childhood near Lansing, Michigan, before his family moved near Cookeville, Tennessee, when McCollough was 13 years old. Later, he moved to Knoxville and attended the University of Tennessee.
"I was very inspired by people like Pete Seeger earlier in my college years when I was doing protests, and I've been inspired by him playing for kids. Just the idea that we need more community music-making, and I think it's valuable. I don't think there are many places for that in our culture, and performing for kids is one of the places where it's still accepted and valued."
Singing at protests, he says, isn't that different from singing for children. Both usually involve singalongs and crafting simple songs with a message.
McCollough began performing for children when he first became a parent and fellow parents started asking him to perform at their children's schools. At the time, McCollough was concert manager at the Laurel Theater for Jubilee Community Arts. In the late 1990s, the Jubilee organization had a program that sent music artists, including Nancy Brennan Strange and Sparky Rucker, into the schools.
"The person in charge of that program knew I was kind of interested, and she hooked me up with Nancy Brennan Strange," says McCollough.
McCollough tagged along with Strange and then began doing his own shows. Not long after, he recorded his first children's album at the Laurel Theater.
While that first album contains only one song written by McCollough, "Earworm" (his third children's album) contains nine originals. Subjects include carsickness, the alphabet and the Sunsphere, and there is a song about goats called "Her Name Was Lady."
Why goats?
"We had about 35 goats at one point, and we lived out in the country," says McCollough about his childhood in Michigan. "There weren't many kids around, so I hung out with the goats a lot. Matter of fact, when I had a birthday party, I did invite my human friends, but we had a slumber party in the barn with the goats."
Another song, the catchy and upbeat "Don't Let 'Em Get Your Goat," is a little more serious.
"Part of what I was inspired by was all of the bullying at schools, particularly around LGTBQ issues," says McCollough. "I decided not to address that directly, but rather try to insinuate, 'We love you for who you are. You need to know that there are those of us who love you for who you are.'"
McCollough believes kids need songs with some depth. As a result, he covers "Rag Doll" by Knoxville great Greg Horne.
"Greg didn't write it for kids, but I put it on the album because I like that song, and I think kids need some sad songs. … I talk to kids a lot about metaphor when I'm performing. When I play 'Rag Doll,' I talk about, 'This is clearly just a song about a doll, a toy that gets thrown aside for another toy, but it can also be a metaphor for, say, one of your friends decides they want to hang out with somebody else instead, and you feel like a rag doll.' That's what that song is about."
McCollough is actually pitching that specific song as a single for adult radio play, as well as for kids' programming.
There are two songs about getting motion sickness, one of which is based on a chant created by late Knoxville musician Phil Pollard. As McCollough describes in the song, Pollard created the syncopated chant to alleviate his own carsickness.
Then there's "Big Ears," a song inspired by "Kidstuff" programs aired during Knoxville's Big Ears Festival and that feature Big Ears artists. It's a trippy, six-minute, banjo-driven opus featuring children singing. It's also another metaphor, this time for keeping an open mind about music.
"I very much think kids are very open-minded about different sounds and different music," says McCollough. "Doing 'Big Ears for Little Ears' has proven that. I don't think they necessarily know what to make of it, but they often seem more accepting of it than many of the parents. They're like, 'OK, this is what Sean's having on the show today. I'll listen to it!'"
"Kidstuff" has helped McCollough find his place within the realm of children's music (more often called "family music" in recent years). He's become friends with other performers in the genre after they've appeared on the show. He hopes the new album helps him gain a national presence, as well. The disc already has been honored with a National Parenting Product Award, and it's getting airplay as far away as Australia.
The most important aspect of McCollough's family music, though, may be that it helps bring kids and parents together for a common experience. While "Kidstuff" is only over-the-air for the majority of the shows, it is presented before a live audience on the Visit Knoxville stage on the second Saturday of each month.
"I think from a very young age, we're pretty disconnected from each other and our culture with our phones and all that," says McCollough. "I really just love for the opportunity for people to come together and it's not about phones. It's about being there together and doing something together as a community."
It's not even officially released yet, but "Earworm," the latest album by my friend Sean McCollough, is already an award winner.
Last week, the National Parenting Product Awards named "Earworm," which McCollough will celebrate with a release party on Saturday morning as part of his monthly "Kidstuff Live" concert series and a Best Children's Music Award. It's not his first foray into the realm of songs for young people: "This Is Our House" was released in 2010, and a year later, he launched the "Kidstuff" program on WDVX-FM.
On the second Saturday of each month, "Kidstuff" is broadcast live from the same stage in the downtown Knoxville Visitors Center as the WDVX "Blue Plate Special," and while most live shows feature guest musicians, this week's spotlight will shine entirely on the host.
While it'll certainly be a party, McCollough told me this week, it'll also be slightly pared down — because next weekend, he's bringing a full band to the Children's Festival of Reading, an all-day event at World's Fair Park.
"I think that for sure that (local multi-instrumentalist) Kyle Campbell is playing with me, and Matt Nelson is going to join me on bass, and I'm hoping to get Steph (Gunnoe, his wife) up there to sing some, too," he said. "Next weekend, I'll bring a full band with drums, bass, keyboards. That one will be a little more rocking, while this week's will be a little folkier."
McCollough can move comfortably between those distinctive sounds. His first children's album was a solo effort, and "This Is Our House," credited to Sean McCollough and Friends, was a pastiche of 10 traditional songs and five originals. The key to making successful children's music, he said, is to approach it from a place of authenticity.
"I think I kind of came out of the Pete Seeger model of playing kids music," he said. "That's still a fantastic model, and I still borrow from that heavily. I tried really hard on this record and in the past to record music that's just good music: well produced, well played and songs that don't talk down to kids, but that kids can still relate to thematically."
In fact, he added, he put as much work into "Earworm" as he does on the albums he makes with Gunnoe as the "Appalachian rock 'n' roll" band The LoneTones. There are no shortcuts just because it's a children's record, and he never looks at the songs he collects as novelties. If anything, working with respected local, regional and national performers of children's material through "Kidstuff" helped him to shape some of those tunes.
"Both Molly Ledford (who guests on "Sunsphere") and Billy Jonas (a guest on "Green Means Go") are pretty well-known children's artists, and they've both been on my radio show, and I've gotten to know them through that," he said. "They were both really happy to help. Molly's song, in fact, had never been recorded before. She wrote it for a gig in Knoxville at the World's Fair Park, and because it's so geographically specific, she may have never recorded it. So I approached her, asked her if I could record it and, oh by the way, can you come sing on it? And she did."
He credits his rhythm section with helping turn the songs into their final versions. Vince Ilagan and Jamie Cook are familiar names in the Knoxville music scene, and the grooves they created to anchor each song helped to give them the buoyancy and bounce that make for engaging and enthusiastic tunes — perfect to please the aural palate of younger listeners.
"We had a lot of fun making it, and we've been pleased by the reception so far — especially from kids, because the reviews don't matter if the kids don't like it!" he said. "(The title track) is a favorite, and I think it's partially because there are lots of ways to participate when I play it live. I have hand motions for the lines 'squirmy worm' and 'wiggly worm,' and everybody, including the grownups, seems to enjoy the 'uh-ohs!' in it. It's become a little bit of a crowd favorite, and kids always like the ones where they can really participate.
"Even some that you might not think work really well live end up going over well, like 'ABC (The Writing Song).' It's about the joys of writing, and because the kids are usually that age where they're learning or already know their ABCs, they know the words and sing along, even though the melody is weird and different."
Different is what makes McCollough's contributions to the vibrant scene such a joy to listen to. This summer, he and Steph will gather the rest of The LoneTones (who will perform Saturday at Vestival in South Knoxville, after the "Kidstuff" release show) to record that band's next record, but in the meantime, "Earworm" is a fantastic addition to any family's playlist — as is a live radio show on the second Saturday of each month, when you can see Sean and others perform regularly.
While I seldom focus on young adult music, I must admit Sean McCollough's 3rd album Earworm (Little Thing Records) is engaging and melodic. Sean is a fixture in the Appalachian folk & Americana scenes. The LP has 15 musicians and that doesn't count the children's chorus. So, while the list of musicians is too numerous to mention individually, I assure listeners they're all proficient and tight as a bug in a rug.
Though the songs are meant for kids they're written in a serious, humorous way. Each possesses a lesson but not in a silly manner; elementary or juvenile. Sean lacks mediocrity and he pushes the inspiration. They're all charmingly polished and they're for children — but not childish.
Sean's musical instincts are sharp and well-served with a natural genre blend distilled yet sweetened with…well, the plain truth. Sean doesn't try to impress with musicianship – he aims for their attention.
"Earworm," – which describes how song melodies get stuck in your head is skillful. Sean's banjo pluck is dominant, catchy and slick. "All Kinds of Singing" is performed descriptively about how there are so many exemplary and varying voices in a song. Similarly, in the early 60's singer/Sun Records Producer & Engineer Jack Clement had a minor novelty approach with his clever "My Voice Keeps Changing on Me."
Sean's tunes are reminiscent of the great work also performed by Tom Chapin, (brother of Harry), and Australian folk singer Rolf Harris who hit in the early '60s with a cardboard flapping effect on "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport."
Sean displays ingenuity and that's what separates these songs from the more childish ones.
"Sunsphere," features female vocalist/songwriter Molly Ledford who sings with Sean and provides an attractive voice for children. "ABC (The Writing Song)," is a more modern melodic driven exercise. The late Pete Seeger would've approved. "Her Name Was Lady," introduces youngsters' ears to jazz. The band is tight, and the addition of animal sounds is not cheeky, it complements the jazzy Geol Greenlee piano.
From jazz, Sean goes grittier with a voice surrounded by steady guitar strums on "Don't Let 'em Get Your Goat." He lays down a firm lesson through his lyric with an inspiring arrangement – the late Harry Nilsson in tradition and a tune Peter, Paul & Mary would've covered. Vince Ilagan's bass spreads a thick carpet of notes while Jamie Cook controls the tremor of drums.
Jazzier 50's style: "Fuzzy Brown Vine (aka Poison Ivy)" summons a bit of Randy Newman tongue in cheek without being cynical, bitter or sarcastic: "The deadliest three leaves that you'll ever find…" Excellent groove. Putting a child at ease is the subject of "Carsick," – a pleasantly upbeat tune about a not so upbeat subject. It makes light of serious affliction children suffer and can relate to. May even be the Dramamine on the next car trip.
Some songs are stronger than others but the final track "Big Ears" is quite the masterpiece. The instrumentation opens a comical subject, locks into excellent vocals, has exciting banjo picking laced into the children's chorale of voices and it's quite stunning.
Traditionally this vocalizing is more popular in England than in America. Pink Floyd used it effectively in "Another Brick in the Wall," and Harry Nilsson used a senior citizen chorale in his "I'd Rather Be Dead (Than Wet My Bed)."
Also, surprisingly, there's a moment when the kids count numbers quickly – a page from Phillip Glass' classic sequence on "Einstein On the Beach." Even if Sean didn't know it.
Sean McCollough's Earworm is a great children's entertainment effort, a worthy effort and yes, I found it delightful to listen to. Sean just may be the new Sharon, Lois & Bram for children who want more character in their songs. The 44-minute collection was produced in TN by Sean and is available at CD Baby, Amazon & iTunes.
I'm guessing that roots music aficionado Sean McCollough probably knows a thing or two about earworms. Having studied music from a very young age, McCollough performs music professionally, serves as a professor of music at the University of Tennessee, and is the host of The Kidstuff Show on WDVX. I'm sure in these various capacities, that he's gotten more than one song stuck in his head. And you will too while listening to his latest album for children, Earworm.
The album opens with the title track which in a very meta way is itself an earworm. The simple melody, combined with catchy lyrics – "It's an earworm, it's not a wiggly worm, it's not a squirmy worm, it's just another term for a song stuck in your head" – will quickly engage listeners and play on repeat in their heads. A combination of original tunes and cover songs fill out the album's often rock/pop tinged Americana sound. Some of the songs are just fun little ditties like "Her Name Was Lady" which gives a list of the names given to a variety of different goats while others like "Fuzzy Brown Vine (aka Poison Ivy)" teach children valuable information. "ABC (The Writing Song)" provides a new tune to learn the ABCs by as well as encourages children to try their hand at all kinds of writing from short things like haikus to long novels. Many listeners will relate to the very true tale of "Carsick" while others will appreciate the message of "Don't Let them Get Yer Goat." A couple of special guests join in the fun as well. Molly Ledford appears on her original tune, "Sunsphere" while Billy Jonas joins McCollough on the polyrhythmic chant, "Green Means Go."
Earworm features accompaniment filled with a wide range of instruments with everything from a mandolin to African drums. While the musicianship is top-notch, it's McCollough's slightly gravely voice however that lends the album a sound that will appeal to children and adults alike. Like it's namesake, Earworm will slowly make it's way into your head and before you know it, you'll be humming the various tunes and happily asking yourself – where do I know that from?
*While taking a listen to the 13 songs in this collection, take a few moments to check out the album's cover featuring artwork by Knoxville-based printmaker Riley Bronough. Riley first came to McCollough's attention when his wife bought a couple of Riley's prints at an art show. Liking the look of the linocuts, McCollough contacted Riley and the Earworm album cover was born. What at first appears to be simple line drawings featuring just three main characters quickly becomes a seek and find for some of the things mentioned on the album. For more information on Riley and her art, visit www.cleversomedayprints.com.
Americana Highways brings you this premiere of the title track from Sean McCollough's children's album Earworm, due to be released on May 11. The album was mixed at Little Thing Studios in Knoxville, TN and mastered by Seva at Soundcurrent Maastering in Knoxville, TN. Cover art is by Riley Bronaugh. Sean McCollough on lead vocals and guitar, Steph Gunnoe on background vocals, Vince Ilagan on electric and upright bass and Jamie Cook on drums.
Many of us have children in our lives, and it's marvelous to have good quality music to offer them. Lyrically, Sean McCollough manages to create songs that have the clarity for kids to grasp, while avoiding the insipid qualities of the fare that's so widely available. "Earworm" explains the concept of that expression — the literal connotations of "ear worm" are slightly unpleasant for listeners of any age, so this is a disarming, charming, clarification. A requisite for a song's appeal to children is that it is something they will understand, with hooks that make for earworms, while the quality of the song will still depend on the musicianship behind the lyrics, and McCollough unmistakably achieves this. Earworm is a collection of earworms from start to finish.
I offhandedly mentioned that the song I was singing was a real earworm. I was met with a chorus of 'oohs, gross, and yuck!' I quickly explained that I wasn't talking about a wiggly worm or a squirmy worm, but rather that 'earworm' is another term for a song stuck in your head. Very soon after, the song was born. Kids love to come up to me and complain that I have gotten this song stuck in their head. So I guess that perhaps 'Earworm' is an earworm about earworms. — Sean McCollough
Host of the Kidstuff Show on Knoxville radio, award-winning Sean wrote and performs 8 of these songs and covers 5 more. He demonstrates his versatility in roots music, including blues, bluegrass, African-American string band, and chant; with some rock, pop, and jazz as well. The excellent backup musicians perform on guitar, banjo, piano, keyboard, lap dulcimer, fiddle, cello, mandolin, upright bass, electric bass, piccolo, trombone, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, drums, African drums, and percussion. An "Earworm" is a song that is stuck in your head. "All Kinds of Singing" is swell. Molly Ledford of Lunch Money joins Sean in her song about the structure called the "Sunsphere" left over from the 1982 Knoxville Worlds Fair. The alphabet helps people write songs and stories in "ABC (The Writing Song)." In "Don't Let 'Em Get Yer Goat," listeners are advised that it doesn't matter what others think about you. "Her Name Was Lady" tells about Sean's childhood pet goats Lady, Pablo, and Jackie (the bully goat). This jazzy minor tune warns listeners about the "Fuzzy Brown Vine (aka Poison Ivy)." Don't worry about the "Rag Doll" because it is not fragile like a china doll. Sean tells the story of how he used to get "Carsick" on long trips. Billy Jonas gives a command performance on his "bucket kit" percussion about traffic lights in "Green Means Go." The narrator gives suggestions for fun, from "Let's Give a Party," to going fishing or going to the park. The "Kidstuff Theme Song" emphasizes that music makes life better. In "Big Ears," listeners are encouraged to open their mind, heart, eyes, and ears. A wonderful and quirky album that is fun for the whole family.
You'll be finger snapping and toe tapping to the energetic beats of Sean McCollough's new kindie album EARWORM. Kindie music merges artists' adult sensibilities and performance styles with family-friendly themes meant to entertain and educate children. EARWORM blends McCollough's Appalachian folk music with mainstream pop sounds to create stick-in-your head rootsy tunes full of positive messaging.
Sean McCollough is a University of Tennessee music professor well known around Knoxville, Tennessee for his folk and kindie music, hosting the Kidstuff Show on WDVX public radio and performances at local festivals. He has been hosting Kidstuff on WDVX since 2012 which has him every Saturday morning interviewing and listening to performances of touring children's musical artists. McCollough own contributions to children's music were recognized in 2010 when he was presented with a Parents' Choice Award for his album This Is Our House.
His new album EARWORM delivers track after catchy track wriggling his melodies and lyrics through listeners' ears into their brains. Tying into his love for the public radio show he hosts, EARWORM includes the "Kidstuff Theme Song." It also includes "All Kinds of Singing" which originated from a collaboration between his radio show and the Knoxville Opera Company.
Being a father of 3, McCollough reminisces through his music about family experiences that other parents can relate to. Moms and Dads will empathize with the pained protagonist in the EARWORM song "Carsick." "ABC (The Writing Song)" relates to a parenting right of passage in teaching a child to know the ABCs of writing through an alphabet sing-along. My favorite song on the album is "Don't Let Em Get Your Goat" which has a message of keeping an upbeat attitude when other people are trying to drag your self-esteem down. Who hasn't had to deal with bullying and teasing in life? This is an entertaining anthem promoting self-confidence for kids and their grown-ups.
EARWORM also highlights McCollough's passion for folk music and his hometown of Nashville. The album's title track is a humorous folk music inspired tune about those annoying songs you just can't get out of your head. McCollough joins with friend Greg Horne performing the traditional folk style "Rag Doll." Molly Ledford, a GRAMMY-nominated songwriter and leader of the band Lunch Money, wrote the song "Sunsphere" about the landmark tower on the Knoxville skyline. The folksy tune "Her Name Was Lady" tells about Sean's childhood pet goats Lady, Pablo, and Jackie.
"Let's Give a Party" celebrates the African-American string-band tradition. It was written by Martin, Bogan and Armstrong (formerly the Tennessee Chocolate Drops who recorded in Knoxville in 1930). McCollough helps produce the annual Louie Bluie Festival in Tennessee, honoring Armstrong.
Another event McCollough helps organize is Knoxville's Big Ears Festival which focuses on kids music. EARWORM ends with a dreamy track called "Big Ears," inspired by this festival. "I love introducing kids to music that requires an open mind, an open heart, and 'big ears'" McCollough professes.
Sean McCollough is a musical artist and popular WDVX Radio show host who will release "Earworm," his third album of songs for kids and their grownups, on May 11, 2019. With 13 stick-in-your-head original and cover songs, "Earworm" features guests including Billy Jonas, Molly Ledford, members of The Lonetones and the Kidstuff Singers.
Sean McCollough is a fixture in the Appalachian folk and Americana scenes and a University of Tennessee music professor, is well known around Knoxville for his music, radio show and festival presentations. His 2010 album titled "This Is Our House" won a Parents' Choice Award.
Sean recently discussed his career and more via an exclusive interview.
Meagan Meehan (MM): How did you initially get interested in music and how come you focus on kid's music?
Sean McCollough (SM): I've played music for as long as I can remember. Both of my parents were musical and there was always a piano and guitar in the house. I played in a rock band in high school and dabbled with playing solo in bars in college, but I didn't really start playing professionally until after college. I've always played music for grown-ups as well. I currently play in a band with my wife called The Lonetones. I started playing for kids when my first child was a toddler and friends with kids began asking if I could play at their kids' schools. It seems I had a knack for it in a folksy, Pete Seeger kind of way, so I kept doing it. I never expected it to become what it has, but I love having it as a part of my life and as one of my musical outlets.
MM: How did you go about securing your first record and how did that lead to other albums being produced?
SM: My high-school band-mate Doug Derryberry (who went on to play with the likes of Bruce Hornsby and the Range and the Sesame Street Band) recorded my first album when I was right out of college. I released it on cassette! I then self-produced a solo singer-songwriter CD and a live children's album. From there, I have gone on to produce a number of other albums including five for the Lonetones. I have recorded nine albums in my home studio including "Earworm."
MM: How is "Earworm" different from your other albums?
SM: When I perform live for kids, I include a lot of traditional Appalachian music, and my two previous children's recordings include some of that. For this record, I chose to include nine originals and covers of more recent songs by people I know (or almost know in the case of "Let's Give A Party" by Martin, Bogan and Armstrong). There is also more electric guitar and keyboard on this record than on previous releases, though there are still a lot of acoustic sounds as well.
MM: What inspired the songs on your forthcoming album?
SM: I tend to just write songs when they come to me. I know some people are successful with picking a topic and setting out to write a song. But your question is on target because I usually wait for inspiration, and that inspiration usually comes from my life. Sometimes I draw on my own childhood, my own children's experiences, or things that school kids say to me at my shows. Here's a little about each original song on the record.
"Earworm" was inspired by a conversation with some kids about the term "earworm" – a term that they thought was quite gross.
"Her Name Was Lady" was inspired by looking through an old photo album with my daughter and remembering how important my goats were to me as a kid.
"Don't Let 'Em Get Yer Goat" was inspired by a conversation with a teacher about a student I met at a school who was very interested in music. I learned that despite her own talent, she was seen as an outsider and picked on by other kids. I wrote most of the song on the drive home.
As I prepared to host the Knoxville Opera Company on my Kidstuff radio show, I started thinking about all the different ways that people sing. And "All Kinds of Singing" was born. "ABC" was inspired by performing at a school and talking to kids about songwriting. "Carsick" was inspired by the fact that both I and two of my three kids have suffered from being prone to carsickness. "Green Means Go" was inspired by my late friend and musical partner Phil Pollard. He made up a chant about getting carsick that we used to do with kids using sign language (and I still do). I turned it into a song and was thrilled to get Billy Jonas to play percussion and sing it with me. "Kidstuff," my radio theme song, is the song that was most deliberate. But it was still written in a moment of inspiration when I got a phone call asking me to host a children's radio show. I got off the phone, took the dogs for a walk, and wrote it in my head by the time I was back home. "Big Ears" was inspired by a boundary-pushing festival of the same name that we have here in Knoxville. We have started hosting a show on Kidstuff in collaboration with the festival each year called "Big Ears for Little Ears." The first time we did this, my special guest was Billy Martin of Medeski, Martin and Wood. I knew that I needed something new and special for that show, so I wrote "Big Ears" the night before. Sometimes inspiration comes in the form of a deadline!
MM: Of all the songs, have you any special favorites?
SM: It's hard to pick a favorite. They all have a place in my heart for one reason or another. "Earworm" is a crowd favorite across the age span. The little ones love the hand motions and everyone seems to love the "uh ohs."
MM: How do you plan out your concerts and what can attendees expect from live events?
SM: My shows are a mix of original, traditional and cover songs. I gear them towards the age of the audience, but also keep the adults in mind, trying to play things that they will enjoy too. My concerts are very participatory. I rarely do a song without something for the audience to do. Sometimes it's a rhythmic pattern to learn (e.g. the end of the chorus on "Her Name Was Lady"), hand motions (e.g. "Earworm"), call and response (e.g. "Let's Give a Party") or just singing along on the chorus. I also often pass out rhythm instruments towards the end of the show and have a handful of songs that allow for active participation that is more than just making a bunch of noise.
MM: You work as a WDVX Radio show host, so how did you get into that field and how would you describe the WDVX programming?
SM: After I released my last family record, WDVX approached me about hosting a children's radio show. WDVX plays a wide array of music. Much of it falls under the umbrella of Americana, but they are fine with me playing world music, rock, soul, and whatever else I think kids will like. My favorite part about WDVX is all of the live music shows that they produce, and Kidstuff is one. I host a live show once a month with special guest. My guests are often local musicians, but I have also hosted the likes of Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Billy Jonas, Molly Ledford, Farmer Jason, Brady Rymer, Jim Gill, Roger Day, and Aaron Nigel Smith.
Shades of Howdy Doody, only no puppet and the host will be Sean McCollough, not Cowboy Bob, and he'll play banjo and guitar. Nearly three months after its WDVX debut in June, McCollough will take his weekly radio show, KidStuff, live once a month beginning with the Saturday, Aug. 27, broadcast. Best known to legal-agers as a member of the LoneTones and the John Myers Band, McCollough has always favored putting a few kids' songs into his repertoire, and released a collection of them, This Is Our House, in November. The disc has picked up an approval rating from the pretty prestigious Parents Choice Foundation for 2011, and some of the tracks will be played on the live show, as they do on the pre-taped version.
The centerpiece for the spontaneous episodes, though, will be a kid performer, chosen by the staff at the Joy of Music School, where weekly lessons and instruments are provided to disadvantaged and at-risk kids at no charge. "The show's an hour long, and probably 10 minutes of that will be the kid performer, playing whatever they've been learning in their lessons at the time," McCollough says. "They'll probably also play something with me, too, and we'll have other adult performers doing music for kids."
For the premiere episode, McCollough's put together what he calls a "little band," which includes Kyle Campbell of the Bearded and Nancy Brennan Strange, along with some other members of the LoneTones. Look for ex-Knoxvillian Phil Pollard to show up soon—even though he reportedly dwells in Richmond, Va., the Band of Humans' frontman has already been on the canned show twice.
Sean: "I just believe in playing real music for kids...."
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...It's music that doesn't sound prefabricated or condescending, tunes that can be enjoyed by all ages even if the target audience is kids....
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Rose: How do you feel about Raffi?
Sean: I like Raffi. I've even done a couple of his songs over the years, but I lean more towards Pete Seeger.
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Knoxville artist tuning in to kids
WDVX, local musician team up for children's radio show
Local musician Sean McCollough has performed hundreds of shows for both children and adults, but he admits to being a little nervous at the prospect of hosting his own radio show for children.
"I'm sure I'll have to kind of feel my way," says McCollough. "I've never been a DJ before. I hope the show gets tighter and I get looser."
The show "Kidstuff" will premiere at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 4, on WDVX (89.9, 102.9 and 93.9 FM and www.wdvx.com).
A little over a week before, he went into the WDVX studio to learn the controls and was immediately put on the air to promote the show.
"I was a little nervous, but it was kind of exhilarating," says McCollough.
WDVX program manager Tony Lawson says the idea for a children's radio show on WDVX had been in consideration for some time.
"We were not in a position to do it, staff-wise, and then Sean put out his children's record," says Lawson. "Sean's so good with kids, and he's a great musician. ... Who better to host a kids' show for us?"
McCollough's album, "This Is Our House," was released in late 2010 and was recently given a Parents' Choice recommendation. It's been selling well to libraries and earning good reviews. One of the most important aspects of the disc is that it's as entertaining for adults as it is children. That may be because of McCollough being in the bands The Lonetones and the John Myers Band, which are not children's groups.
McCollough says children appreciate being engaged on several levels. He plans to present a wide variety of genres in the show and take time to tell a little about the music.
"I'd also like to stretch beyond music that's just intended specifically for kids and just pick music that I think kids would like," says McCollough. "I really want to stay away from thinking this just has to be children's performers."
While, he says, it will take some time to establish the show's format, McCollough intends "Kidstuff" to be a variety show with live performers, recorded music and, possibly, storytelling.
"I hope to make it thematic," says McCollough. "One week I'll focus on a certain instrument or a certain artist or songwriter. I also hope to include, either live or recorded, performances by kids themselves. There are a lot of young performers around here who are really talented, so we'll try to include that as well."
McCollough's album features performances by the Pinklets, which is made up of his daughter Willa and the three daughters of fellow musician Kevin Abernathy.
Lawson says that during the station's New Year's Eve live-music celebration, 4-year-old Harlan Gladson, the son of Pea Ridge Rambler member Todd Gladson, was playing the fiddle on stage at the Knoxville Visitor's Center. Other children wanted to get on stage, too.
The plan for "Kidstuff" includes presenting at least one show per month live in front of an audience - sort of a "Blue Plate Special" for children and families.
"Hopefully," says Lawson, "it'll reach the inner kid in everyone."


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ProsFree account option. Intuitive interface. Attractive design themes. Full commerce options. Statistics included. Creates custom mobile sites. Auto-saves site edits. Lets you download your site code as standard HTML/CSS. iPad site-editing app.
ConsNo undo. Less photo editing capability than competitors. No newsletter feature.
Bottom LineWith an excellent interface, free accounts, site stats, and downloadable source code, Weebly is definitely worth a look for any would-be website builder.
Weebly is an intuitive and powerful online website builder. It lets you build and edit great-looking sites without making you learn a secret design language. The service continues to up its game with a retuned editor interface, integrated e-commerce and newsletter marketing capabilities, new themes including video backgrounds, and page sections. Its strict responsive design implementation makes it more restrictive than our Editors' Choice, Wix, however, and Weebly still doesn't offer universal undo capability or let you reuse uploaded images, all of which can impede site-building.
Getting Started With Weebly
You can start building your Weebly site for the price of an email address and password. That gets you a 10-page site with a generous 500MB of storage, but your free site will include Weebly ads. For $8 per month, the Starter account adds a custom domain name, no Weebly branding, unlimited storage, and a 10-product store. A $12-per-month Pro account adds site search, password protection for up to 100 site members, and video backgrounds. It also increases your store to 25 products. With a Business account, you can sell unlimited products, including digital goods. The $49 per month Performance option adds email marketing (five campaigns per month to up to 500 addresses), and real-time shipping-rate calculation.
As with pretty much every other site builder, you start out by choosing a template. With 48 choices, Weebly doesn't offer as many site themes as Wix (360) or even Squarespace (56). Unlike most site builders, it doesn't show you a preview of the theme's mobile view as well as the desktop view. The templates are very good-looking site designs, however, and you can change the theme later without having to rebuild your site. Squarespace also lets you do this.
Next you choose a domain for your site. This can be a subdomain of Weebly.com for free, or you can purchase a custom domain right on the spot, or use one you already own.
Even with the recent update, Weebly's interface hasn't changed drastically. You still get a dark left panel for dragging elements onto your page. The panel switches function modes when you make choices from a menu across the top offering Build, Pages, Theme, Store, Settings, and Help.
You can add all the usual elements to your site's page, including text boxes, images, maps, spacers, and media. The latter consists of video, audio, and document files, but now only paid accounts can insert audio and video, which are both now HD quality. There are also elements for polls, RSVP forms, forums, feeds, and surveys. If what you're looking for isn't available, you may find it in the Apps section (see below).
As with Squarespace and unlike Wix, you can't just drag items anywhere on the page you like. In testing, the object I tried dragging to a spot often flew somewhere else on the page. When you move the mouse cursor to the right away from the toolbar, it hides to show more of the site you're designing. Premium objects' buttons have an orange lightning icon on them, and if you drag one onto your page, you get a message asking you to upgrade.
The Section element is new. It simply offers a way to add an area into which you can drop more objects. A Section can be a free-form rectangle or it can use one of five layout types: Gallery, Team, Featured, Menu, and Contact. Team is the typical staff-profile page you see on corporate sites; the others are self-explanatory. You can drag the top or bottom of a Section up or down to resize it—something you surprisingly cannot do with a lot of elements, though you can use the Space element to resize areas.
Page Management
Adding site pages is handled by the sidebar when you choose Pages from the top menu bar. I like this because it doesn't take you off your site preview page. You get a choice of a standard page, blog page, store page, or external page. I like the way clicking on navigation elements in the Weebly builder takes you to the target destination. Wix makes you navigate via the sidebar. But Wix lets you do some cool things that aren't built into Weebly, such as animating your title text and using video or image-carousel backgrounds.
A more serious lack in Weebly is an Undo feature for site changes like adding elements or changing the theme, let alone a full history feature like that in Wix, which lets you roll back your site to a previous state. Weebly does offer Undo and Redo buttons for simple text entry, however. With Wix, you can hit Ctrl-Z to undo a box resizing, for example, and both it and DudaOne have permanent undo and redo buttons for everything you do in the builder.
I do like how Weebly (like Wix) lets you enter text directly on the page rather than in a sidebar, as Squarespace and some others still make you do. But Wix also goes both of them one better by offering right-click context menu options for things like replacing images and editing text. Wix even offers animation of your site objects!
Apps and Images
From the toolbar's Apps button, you can head to the App Center, where there's an array of widgets to add to your site, some free, some with fees. I tried the app feature by adding Scheduler Pro. I simply had to allow it access to my Weebly account, which is sort of like authorizing a Web app with Facebook. Its button showed up in toolbar after I clicked the Apps link. One problem with this app is that it's toolbar doesn't show up in the builder interface's preview. It's a bit jarring to have to see site elements show up for the first time live on your site. If you're serious about your site design, you want to see how everything looks before you publish it.
Other available apps include JotForm, SimpleChat, Shippo (for shipping labels), tabs, counters, and dozens more. In terms of sheer numbers, Weebly has a respectable 186 widgets compared with Wix's 256, but in addition to the sheer lead in numbers, I find Wix's apps better integrated and easier to navigate.
Perhaps one of Weebly's biggest drawbacks is that it doesn't provide online storage for your site images and videos so that you can reuse them. Instead, you have to store the images locally and re-upload them every time you want to use them somewhere else. Backgrounds, which appear on multiple pages, are an exception. Wix and Duda offer an online repository for all your images, but Squarespace, like Weebly, does not.
Actual image editing in Weebly is limited, too: You can only crop, rotate, fade, change transparency, and apply four filters if you click on the Edit Image button. By contrast, Squarespace and Wix offer the full set of integrated Aviary online image editing tools. You can, however, upload multiple images at a time with Weebly's attractive gallery widget. It's also easy to assign an internal or external link to an image. Wix lets you access your photos from other online sources, such as Flickr and Facebook, as well as offering stock photography (as Squarespace also does). Weebly's image search lets you find both free and paid photos, and you can set these as favorites, though you can't do that for your own uploaded images.
Blogging and Publishing
Weebly's blogging interface is as straightforward as the rest of the site builder, letting you drag any page element onto a blog post. I do find it odd that there are no standard blog templates, however. Maybe you just want text and an image for every post; with Weebly you have to drag even those basic elements in every time. You can control social sharing and commenting, and comments are threaded and can be easily deleted.
Weebly lets you add tags to your posts, and you can save them as drafts before publishing. You can set them to be announced on your Facebook and Twitter feeds automatically, too. Wix offers a few more blog-related widgets like tag clouds and feature posts, but Weebly does a good job of presenting the archive and tag list, as well as offering Flickr and LinkedIn badges. Both services automatically produce RSS feeds for your blogs.
An orange Publish button takes your site live. There's no need for a Save button, since edits are saved automatically. This contrasts with Wix, which requires you to explicitly hit save any time you want site edits to stick. Which you prefer depends on your work style. Weebly also contrasts with some site builders, such as 1&1 MyWebsite, which publish whenever you edit, giving you no chance to change your mind. Another plus here for Weebly is that, as in Wix, you can have multiple editors working on a site: Just send an email and specify whether your coeditor should have full Admin, Author, or Dashboard-only rights.
Making Money With Your Site
Weebly lets premium account holders add Store and Product page types with a very rich set of commerce tools. You can even import products from Etsy, Shopify, or a CSV file. You can accept payments using PayPal, Square, Stripe (the only option for Squarespace users), and Authorize.net. New for Weebly stores are inventory tracking and abandoned cart notifications, the latter of which requires a top-level Performance account. And now free accounts can't do any selling—even slapping a single PayPal button on a page requires a paid site.
The Store builder has all the elements you expect: a cart, sale prices, invoices, coupons, sizes and colors. In fact, there's a whole Store mode accessible from the site builder's top navigation bar. Like Squarespace, Weebly lets you sell digital downloads, but this requires a $25-a-month Business account. With Wix you can only sell digital goods via third-party apps.
You can paste AdSense ads on your site pages, for an additional (albeit usually meager) stream of revenue. An easy-to-use integrated setup feature lets you authorize Weebly for your AdSense account (or even create a new one).
Weebly recently added an integrated newsletter email feature for paid account levels, called Promote, and an element in which site visitors can subscribe. When a user signs up, Weebly sends an email to your admin email notifying you of the new subscriber. The email marketing tool is easy to use and offers a flexible way to get your word out, even suggesting mail blasts when you have a product on sale.
Mobile Site Design and App
Weebly uses a similar mobile site-creation strategy to Squarespace's by automatically generating a good-looking responsive mobile site based on your site template. Like Duda and Wix, Weebly still offers a button that takes you to mobile site editing, but with Weebly that view only works if you're using an old template. With old templates, you can even choose a mobile theme that differs from the main site, and turn off header images, the search box, and social icons. The new Weebly responsive designs do look great on mobile phones, and can even fill the whole background with an image, but all this comes at the cost of customizability, which is a shame.
Weebly is ahead of most of the pack in delivering a touch-friendly, drag-and-drop supporting iPad app for site building. Weebly's app even offers an associated Apple Watch app that alerts you about site traffic or commerce transactions. Jimdo has an app, too, but it's limited in the number of page elements it can add. The Wix app has been updated to let you edit ecommerce features and blog with it, but it doesn't offer site creation and design edits like Weebly's. In any case, editing a site design on the iPad isn't ideal. For example, iOS has its own ideas about what should happen when you long-press on an image, making it hard to perform some edits.
Site Statistics and Mobility
Even free users get access to some site-activity stats for their Weebly sites—not the case with Wix. Free users can see page views and unique visitors for each day of the month, but upgraded accounts can see search terms used to get to the site, referring sites, and top-visited pages. One obvious concern is reliability. At one point during my testing, the site builder stopped working and displayed a "Down for Unexpected Maintenance" page. Despite that, the site I built didn't go down itself during that builder maintenance.
From the editor's Settings page, Weebly lets you download your site as a ZIP archive file with all of your HTML and send it via email, which is a lot more than most site-builders offer. It means you can move the site to a standard Web hosting service. This doesn't include some of the interactive features like your storefront and comments, but even what Weebly does is not possible with Squarespace or Wix. This capability is a serious differentiator and something that should be considered by anyone who's building a website and doesn't want to be locked into one service.
Weebly Isn't Wobbly, But Is It Best for You?
Apart from its lack of undo functionality, Weebly remains one of the easiest site builders to use. It offers generous free options, and is the only one of the many I've reviewed that lets you export standard site code. The responsive designs are great looking, but they come at the cost of design customizability and ease of use. Editors' Choice website builder Wix is both the most intuitive and fullest-featured of the services I've reviewed.


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Mother's Day is coming...what will you give and say to your loving mother?
@grecychunny26 (9595)
May 5, 2007 4:09am CST
Mama, your the most beautiful mother in the whole world. You take good care of me and you gave your life to us. I will promise to take care of you and Papa, forever. I love you.
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@tigerdragon (4297)
• Philippines
5 May 07
it's just me and my mama. i will give her flowers on mom's day instead of giving to someone else.i will make her day very special by letting her clean the whole house, do the gardening basically do all the work!!!hahaha,it's a joke!i will treat her out for dinner and buy her stuff she wants but not on mother's day .maybe some other day so we could have the day for ourselves and no other mothers.
@amar_sandy1987 (1879)
• India
5 May 07
i will hug my mom and tel her to rest and i will do all her house work that day and try to help her as much as i can because its mothers day i mean its her day to enjoy so why dont we celebrate like this days daily
@lynboobsy11 (11345)
• Philippines
5 May 07
Maybe just a simple message saying that I LOVE her and three pieces of red roses and a big hug with a kiss. Just to express how much thankful that she's my mom.


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This is the first time I am attempting a full marathon, your support will mean the world to me. Every dollar you donate will go directly to funding the charity's activities. I ask that you donate generously. Help me make this run more meaningful.
For the amount we spend on a night out having drinks, or a dinner at a fancy restaurant, or a meal we order through deliveroo, or even just the amount we spend on uber because we wake up late, a needy patient can get the aid s/he needs on their road to recovery.
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Today, our Charity runs more than 100 patient-centred programmes, disbursing more than $2 million each year for the Charity's activities. We support over 2,500 needy patient cases, especially the elderly and those who fall through the cracks of the system, and those who are unable to receive help from traditional charitable agencies.
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The Placebo Effect by David Rotenberg
Source: Review copy for book tour
Links: Amazon, Goodreads, Facebook, Author's website
Decker Roberts has the dangerous gift of detecting the truth (synaesthesia). But when his carefully compartmentalized life starts to fall apart he has to go on the run and figure out why he's being targeted. There's also a government agency hunting him down who seems to know everything about him and other people of "his kind." How will Decker find out which truth was endangering his life? Who betrayed him and revealed all his secrets? Decker needs to find answers quickly, before knowing the truth turns from a gift into a deadly curse.
For me, the highlight of this book was the detailed descriptions of Toronto, a city I live not far from. It is unusual for a Canadian city to have such prominence in a book, and it was quiet refreshing. Most people familiar with Toronto will recognize most, if not all, of the locations mentioned in the story. It gave me a quiet thrill to actually know the places mentioned.
Getting to the actual story, I found Decker's ability to be quite unique and very interesting. I have never before thought of how being able to detect truth could be profitable or rich. It is definitely an underused gift in the world of paranormal abilities.
I did find the story a bit confusing near the end as all the threads started coming together to form the climax, but they did coalesce nicely. The ending was satisfingly complete.
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On a course in California in 2006 I had a profound experience. The course fee was $15,000 and it was the most expensive course I've ever taken. I definitely could not afford it, but something deep within me said that I just had to take it. I had no choice. Period. It was an intense 7-day course, 16 hours a day, where we sat in a sound proof chamber and had a computer screen in front of us, while listening to our brain waves.
It reminded of a flight simulator, especially since the course took place next to an airport and the control room was made up of loads of technical devices and there were more staff than participants on the course.
I had a number of electrodes attached to my head which in turn was connected to a computer. Via the electrodes the computer analyzed my brain waves and based on my brain patterns different sounds was sent back to the surround speakers in the chamber. At the end of each 2 minute session I got different scores. The higher the scores, the more my brain waves were synched, in other words the different parts of my brain was cooperating in a good way. So the sound that was playing was a direct reflection of how my brain was operating.
We had different tasks to work with in the chamber and one of the main thing we focused on was to forgive – our family and friends, people that have hurt us, ourselves for hurting other people etc. The more I was able to forgive and get in touch with my inner core, the higher the scores and the more harmonious the sound became, giving me immediate feedback if I was on the right track or not. In the beginning I found it very hard, since I've lived most of my life up in my head, but the more I practiced the more I was able to forgive whole heartily, not only in my head.
"You are Peter – you shall
follow me and help me"
At one point when I was sitting there in the chamber I suddenly found myself in a large theater. I was sitting at the balcony looking down at the stage. The curtains were closed, but there were someone behind the curtains, hesitating if he or she should dare to withdraw the curtains and come out on the stage or not. This went on for some time until suddenly, just like when letting out the genie from the bottle in a Disney movie, a huge figure appeared filling the whole stage, reaching all the way to the balcony where I was sitting. The experience was so powerful it felt like I had been struck by a lightning bolt. The figure was Jesus, and he had an important message to share with me. He said "You are Peter. You shall follow me and help me."
Even though it was a very powerful experience I didn't understand that much of what had just happened. One reason was that Jesus spoke English and said Peter, but in Sweden we call him Petrus. Another reason was probably because I didn't want to understand, since I intiuitively realized that it would have a big impact and may even change my life. But later when I shared my experience with the course leader, Professor Jim Hardt, he explained that according to the bible Jesus had said to his disciple Peter "You are Peter, the rock. Upon this rock I shall build my church." Jim continued by saying that maybe I was about to start a new spiritual lineage.
I remember thinking to myself that I didn't have the slightest idea of how this new spiritual lineage would come about, but I still felt that he was probably right. Since I've always felt that my life has an important purpose, it kind of made sense. On a side note, the name of the company I had founded a year earlier, Sorena, actually means tribal leader (in the Persian language), something I wasn't aware of when I created the name. The name Sorena is a wordplay of the two first letters in mine and my sons names – Anders, Eric and Oscar, which gives Aneros. Spell it backwards and you get Sorena.
A couple of years later, in 2009, I had discovered the immense power inherited in our breath. It was then I decided to become the worlds leading expert on breathing and formed the Conscious Breathing concept.
My inner wisdom that
was talking to me
Så vad innebär upplevelsen i den ljudisolerade kammaren för mig? Till att börja med så är jag inte religiös i den bemärkelsen att jag utövar någon särskild religion. Jag anser inte att jag är kristen, protestant, buddhist, muslim, hindu etc. För mig är Jesus precis som Buddha, Muhammed och andra andliga ledare, historiska personer som representerar kärleksfrekvensen och möjligheten att vara snäll och förlåtande och inspirera människor till bra handlingar.
Jag tror att min upplevelse i själva verket var min inre visdom talade till mig, för att hjälpa mig att bege mig ut på resan och forma konceptet Medveten Andning. Det gav mig en tillit och inre styrka som jag burit med mig när jag tvivlat under resans gång, vilket hänt mer än en gång. Exempelvis jobbade jag utan lön under sex år, från 2010 till 2016. Jag tvingades sälja mitt hus 2010 och leva på besparingar för att kunna fortsätta att utveckla Medveten Andning. Jag ångrar inte på något sätt denna resa, som emellanåt varit tuff, tvärtom, min poäng är att upplevelsen var kraftfull och att den satte sig på djupet.
Anledningen till att figuren uppträdde som Jesus är troligtvis på grund av att jag växte upp i ett hem som till viss del var kristet och att jag gick i söndagsskolan när jag var liten. Eftersom våra upplevelser som barn har en enorm påverkan hade figuren som uppenbarade sig troligtvis varit från en annan religion om jag hade växt upp med den religionen istället.
So what does the experience from the brain feedback course mean to me? Well, to start with I'm not religious in the sense that I subscribe to any specific religion. I do not consider myself to be a christian, protestant, buddhist, muslim, hindu etc. To me Jesus is just like Buddha, Muhammed and other spiritual leaders, a historical figure representing the frequency of love and the ability to be kind and forgiving and inspire others to good actions.
I believe that my experience was my inner wisdom talking to me, helping me to set out on the path of creating the Conscious Breathing concept. It provided me with a foundation of trust and inner strength that I could lean towards when in doubt, which has happened more than once, during the long journey of forming the concept. For example I worked without salary for six years, between 2010 and 2016. I had to sell my house in 2010 and live on savings in order to be able to continue to develop Conscious Breathing. I don't regret this, sometimes a bit tough, journey, not a single bit, on the contrary, but my point is that the experience in the chamber was profound and made a deep impression.
The reason why the figure appeared in the form of Jesus is probably because I grew up in a somewhat Christian home and I went to Sunday school as a child. Since our experiences as a child affects us deeply, if I would have been raised within another religion the figure appearing would probably have been from that religion.
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