Brent Watkins on Music: Recent Episodes
Brent Watkins
As a musician, Brent Watkins has a truly unique story. A classically trained pianist, he began playing at the age of 8. By the time he was 14 (in 1975), he started gigging in a seedy adult-entertainment district in Kansas City called "The River Quay." There he learned the ins and outs of being a ragtime pianist. But his tastes in music have been so broad, that a friend once called him, "a musical omnivore." Most recently, he released "There It Is," an album in the tradition of German electronic experimentalism. Join him each week as he talks about music's profound personal, social, and cultural impact on the world around us.
Between the 1907 Webster and the 2022 Oxford, which dictionary's definition would you predict was the most modern? The answer will surprise you. In this episode, Brent Watkins talks about what defines music and why we may be misled into thinking we know what it is.
Brent answers his own question and discloses his "musical home address." That's right. He was a child of the 70s.
In this debut episode of Brent Watkins on Music, Brent talks about how our relationship with music and why what we listened to during our "coming of age" years becomes what he calls, "our musical home address."