BETWEEN THE TWO LIVES

Between the two lives of J. B. Stanislas, the first which had not even begun for it seemed that Stanislas’ destiny was to remain a stillborn child and the other which has to be attributed to the crucial Christian miracle which many dwellers of this planet want to believe in, well, between the first and the second coming of Stanislas to the world, Nick Garrie was trying to get rid of music, but he never actually put down the guitar. Even when he was a ski instructor in Switzerland, he would play and sing for guests although he mainly chose standards over his own tracks. Here and there, he would squeeze in a song of his own and never mentioned it was his. Of course, tourists would believe that those songs also belonged to the cream of pop music used for setlists of gigs meant to provide background music to evening chats and a few drinks on decks and in hotels. He would occasionally return to songwriting, recording and concert performances, moving along the parallel t...