Osgood & Blaque Duo Band: Blog

Cee and I are avid coffee drinkers. We like to sit on the patio at just about daybreak, drinking a nice, hot cup of our favorite coffee, which by the way, goes well with a donut or two, while listening to the comforting sound of birds singing. We would read excerpts from the current copy of Reader's Digest. Cee loves to keep to date with the Vicksburg Post daily newspaper. Occasionally, we'd see a squirrel or two and it reminds me of the beauty of nature. We both regularly enjoy this morning fetish, as it were, and are often caught away in its observance, until we are suddenly interrupted by the loud rumble of the city's garbage truck as it barges down the street collecting its due for the day.

We also enjoy another local pasttime. Have you ever been to the Overlook? There are two of them, of course, and I'm sure you've been to at least one if you live in Vicksburg. We go there in the evenings sometimes before sundown with our coffee in the thermost, steaming hot, and we sit and enjoy [...]

Though music and songwriting played a major part of my childhood, I don't set the date for my first composition until later. Being a pianist and an electronic musician and composer, I depend on a solid connection between my heart and my ears. I owe a lot of thanks to my mother, who sang almost every day! And so I was introduced to music very young and thus began training my ears even before I was born.

I took the first years of music classes during junior high and high school while participating in the shcool band from 1976 - 1980. This was my first true formal training in music. It was quite enjoyable, but I found myself writing less music, even becoming a little disinterested. I value the things that I learned from those classes but there was something about the technical side that stole away the link between my ears and my heart. My music-writing kind of dwindled for the next few years as I dropped all music classes and focused on required credits for acquiring a high school diploma. [...]

At some point in our lifetime, all of us have experienced fear to some degree. An online dictionary defines fear as "an awareness of danger". Perhaps as a child we felt afraid of falling off a bicycle or swing. Or maybe at our place of employment we may have been afraid at certain times of losing our job. It could also be that as peace loving christians, we sometimes experienced fear in our own neighborhoods especially when the sound of violence can be heard throughout "the land". -Isaiah 60:18 Yes, "fear of man" is also prevalent in these last days. Since so much natural fear exist today, we right ask: What do the scriptures say about fear? Does the bible tell us anything about godly fear? Happily, it does. Psalm 111:10 tells us: "The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom". So, just what does the "fear of God" encompass?-Proverbs 29:25;

Romans 15:4 states that the "things written aforetime were written for our instruction". Let us now consider one way godly fear has benefited God's [...]

Osgood & Blaque Duo Band is one of the most widely-acclaimed new musical acts to come along in years, performing over 150 live shows annually with clients residing all over the United States. Before the reemergence of solo and duo performers, focus was primarily on acoustical performances. However, the development of compact musical acts known as "duo-band" in recent years has contributed to a significant change in the direction that live musical solo and duo performances has taken.

Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 - February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Jordan exhibited a brilliant sense of showmanship that brought audiences first-rate entertainment "without any loss of musical integrity." Against the backdrop of house parties, fish fries, and corner grills, Jordan performed songs that appealed to millions of black and white listeners. Able [...]

"I was in a good mood when I asked the hotel manager if I could play that big grand piano they had sitting in the lobby. The manager says: "Sure. We don't pay anybody but you're welcome to play. I thought: "It's a shame to have such a fine piano as this and no piano player. So, I took a seat and started playing. Soon, a small crowd of people came and started requesting songs. "Do you know this? Can you play such-and-such". Of course, their requests were accompanied with a liberal tip. One woman brought me shot of Tequila, a budweiser and gave me a $100 bill. I played a few more selections including "Sitting On Top of The World" and "Danny Boy" before finally leaving and going to bed...it was a very good year!"