Beth Blenz-Clucas got her pal Stefan Shepherd from Zooglobble and NPR’s All Things Considered to write a guest-post.
With the surge of interest of family music over the past decade or so, I’ve wondered more than once who might be the next Dan Zanes. Zanes has built an entire second career, longer than his first, around playing what he calls “age-desegregated music.” Rather than writing music about childhood experiences — while he has nothing against songs about “learning how to brush one’s teeth,” as he’s suggested, it’s not what he’s interested in — he’s chosen to record music with no child-specific focus. It seems to me a very flexible career approach and I’m surprised that there aren’t more folks trying to do what he does (at least full-time).
