Can you take a wild guess what this record is doing in my stacks?
From The Stacks: ‘The Dells vs. The Dramatics’
Deep Cuts: Seafood Songs
This week’s “Deep Cuts” was inspired by a Google search. Most of the random searches that lead people to Why It Matters involve album covers, concert photos, song lyrics, that sort of […]
On Diffuser: Electric Mumfords? Bring It On
Man, you’d think Mumford & Sons announcing an electric album was that worst thing that ever happened. I get it. You like your banjos and your acoustic guitars and blah blah blah, […]
From the Stacks: George Jones Sings Bob Wills
If you want country the way nature intended it, you can’t do much better than 1962’s George Jones Sings Bob Wills. That is, unless you skip the intermediary George Jones step and […]
The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Paul Butterfield Blues Band
It’s six o’clock Monday morning. The sun is up and the kids are clearing out, going back to their jobs, schools, worried parents. Some are just wiped out from a long weekend […]
On My Turntable: Bob Dylan – Tempest
Bob Dylan’s new album, Tempest, is the thirty-fifth coming according to the music press. The man is officially a national treasure as of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors (similar to a knighthood […]
70. The Dream Is Always The Same
There are two must-see movies in the Tom Cruise filmography. One is Risky Business, where he plays a cocky but well-meaning guy with daddy issues. The other is The Color Of Money, […]
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