Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

-20° C on New Year’s morning in Berlin in the late 1990s

Bonnie Dobson’s “Morning Dew” and Chuck Berry’s “Promised Land”: Two great covers played by The Grateful Dead

The “Speed 1 Hit $5” sign at the Theta Chi coop at Stanford in the 1980s

Grateful-Dead-like “spaces” in 1984 concerts by Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie, and Oregon

Windows, Lights: A story from the mid-1980s

Becoming a fan of live jazz with Ralph Towner (1940-2026) and John Abercrombie