Scenario #1: You’re listening to a song you’ve never heard before, by someone you don’t know. It’s a nice song. Nice melody, nice lyrics, nice arrangement, nice voice. You hope the chorus and bridge won’t spoil the broth. They don’t. They are what you hoped they would be. A nice, comforting fit with the opening…

My brother, Benjamin Knobil, is an actor and theater author/director, who works mainly in Switzerland. A couple of months back, he called me to say that he was going to be able to fulfill a long-standing fantasy of his, namely, to sing on-stage. He was invited by a club-owner to sing about the Mediterranean (the…

I’m not the most prolific writer, and I prefer verse to prose, but I really have been very busy lately. So here is the first hint (in frog, sorry) of what I have been up to on the creative front. I’ll tell you more as soon as my fingertips heal from too much guitar playing.

I’m not much of a journal-diary writer and never have been. So the point of sknoblog certainly isn’t to attempt to change that. I can talk about making music, I could bore you with the intricacies of translation (and I just might), but there are many important subjects that I will in all likelihood never…