We celebrated President’s Day this past Monday in the United States. Well, honestly
Deep Cuts: Songs For Presidents
Deep Cuts: Airplane Songs
I’m writing this in advance of the Reno Air Races because: A) I don’t know whether I’ll have time to put this together while attending the races, and B) Who knows? Maybe
Deep Cuts: The 1980s–Rock Sax’s Last Great Era
I was thinking the other day about the death of the saxophone. When the rock era dawned, having a sax player on the front line was as commonplace as featuring a hotshot […]
173. Telling Myself It’s Not As Hard, Hard, Hard As It Seems
The sun wasn’t up when we loaded into Jody’s Cordoba. My motorcycle was hitched to the back bumper, riding on a fifty dollar trailer made from angle iron and the rear axle […]
April’s Picks: February 2014
April isn’t messing around this month. No small talk, no jibba jabba, just right to the music. I’m with her, let’s do this:
131. I’ll Take You Where You Really Need to Be
Where were you on July 16,1986? My parents generation knew their whereabouts when Kennedy was shot or Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface and declared it too dusty for a […]
87. Who’s Going To Teach Me Peace And Happiness?
We stayed with Lee G.’s friends at Murrells Inlet that week, just down the road from Myrtle Beach. The hub around which the whole thing turned was his friend Sheila, whose parents […]
