The Importance of Music in My Life

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I began playing the guitar when I was four years old and it was one of those things you know certain people are artists and they begin painting when they're children. Guitar was my thing music was my thing and I would spend hours every day playing and I studied for a while with Eddie Simon who was Paul Simon's brother. When I went away to college I started opening for people um opening shows for people who were significantly better musicians than I. And then when I left college moved back to New York and moved back in with my mother she had moved into the city with her second husband, Random House. In 2008 he was very very ill and he took his own life in 2008 and

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Elissa Altman, author of ‘Motherland’ and more.

Katherine finds Elissa in that pre-Christmas zone, which serves as the perfect jumping-off point for a very upfront, candid and fascinating conversation on family. Specifically, Elissa's relationship with her mother. Like every family, it's a relationship which is unique and comes with its own inimitable history, and as such, informs where the two find themselves this present day, and it's a wonderful thing to hear Elissa talk openly about all that is contained within this box of memories and present moments. In addition, Elissa catches up with Katherine about the New England Winter, being a feeder, her relationship with her father, mental wellbeing, getting out of the 'swamp' via nature and its grounding properties, rediscovering and reprocessing her musical proclivities, and all with a real glint and sparkle.

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