We’ve all seen Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock, the Academy Award-winning 1970 documentary about the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
Deep Cuts: The Woodstock You’ve Never Heard
Deep Cuts: Covers Better Than The Originals
Here’s another playlist that started as a discussion in the Facebook music group that I manage. Last week’s “live tracks better than their studio cousins” list led to the suggestion of cover […]
From The Stacks: ‘Crazy Otto’s Back in Town’
It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these, so let’s do it.
Siesta
I am sitting in a diner, listening to Miles Davis’s 1987 album, Music From Siesta. I was managing a record store in Savannah when this album was released three decades ago. Thirty […]
Deep Cuts: Songs For Uncles
Uncles mostly get a bad rap in rock songs. They’re molesters, abusers, creeps.
From the Stacks: Frank Zappa, ‘Mystery Box’
Here’s your big boy, your white whale, the cornerstone of your Frank Zappa bootleg collection.
From the Stacks: Pearl Jam Bootlegs
Collecting Pearl Jam bootlegs is kind of, well, odd.
On Diffuser: We’re Drowning in Nostalgia (and It’s Partly My Fault)
I own a lot of box sets — a lot — but an 80-disc Grateful Dead box? No thanks.
Deep Cuts: Friend Songs
Jarod and I have been in touch over the years and we remain good friends. I haven’t talked to him in the last couple of years, but ours is one of those […]
The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Country Joe and the Fish
By the time Country Joe and the Fish hit the stage around 6:30 Sunday evening, their lead singer already had left his impression on the Woodstock festival. Country Joe performed an impromptu […]
Why It Matters 