One night — cold, windy, the kind of night Chicago hands you without apology — our phone rang. His friend said something that felt both impossible and totally believable in that downtown melting pot.
“Get down to Buddy Guy’s Legends right now. We’re playing pool with Buddy and Eric Clapton.”
GE Smith: A Lifetime of Grit, Strings, and American Music… Finally Meets Carnegie Hall
By Christopher Sopher
Valley of the Sun Press – Music News
Phoenix, Arizona
November 30, 2025
November
On November 24, 2025, at the United Center in Chicago, Paul McCartney showed everyone in the building exactly why he’s lasted more than sixty years at the top of music. It wasn’t his voice. It wasn’t the band. It wasn’t even the songs.
It was his grace.
The Birth of a Poem
By Christopher Sopher
Valley of the Sun Press – Story: The Birth of a Poem
November 25, 2025
It’s a perfect Phoenix afternoon. 3 p.
