It’s quite fashionable to criticize the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s annual inductees, and I’m nothing if not fashionable.
The 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Are…Well, They Are
Deep Cuts: The Best of Not Prince
One can sum up ’80s pop music with four artists: Bruce, Madonna, Michael, and Prince. In a way they were the last of the real superstars. The ’90s belonged to the anti-stars […]
Deep Cuts: Fleetwood Mac Covers
Recently I dug an album out of my stacks by Rockets that featured a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well.” Man, what a song. I started thinking of all the great Fleetwood […]
155. There’s Always Something Happening and it’s Usually Quite Loud
Our new apartment was the finished attic of an old Victorian on the outskirts of Savannah’s historic district. It was one big open space with a bathroom added just to the left […]
From the Stacks: John Stewart – Bombs Away Dream Babies
If you are over forty you know this album, you just don’t know it. Thanks to assists from Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks this album went top ten in the […]
The (Kind Of) Complete Woodstock: Melanie Safka
The time was nearing eleven p.m. when twenty-two year old Melanie Safka, or Melanie, took the Woodstock stage. A label mate of Bert Sommer’s over at Buddah, she was enjoying a little […]
91. More Fun In the New World
“Well then what do you want to do?” I asked. “I don’t know,” Sherri said. “But I don’t want to go to the movies. All you want to do is watch videos […]
Susan Sarandon, Are You Listening?
“Where is the lust?” a new reader asked recently after noticing my “Liquor, Lust, and Primer Gray Camaros Set To Music” subtitle. Just a couple of weeks ago I received feedback that my sexual content […]
Deep Cuts: Stop Time and Turn Up the Radio Songs
I have 33,000 songs in my pocket. I can go for three months, twenty-four hours per day and not listen to the same song twice; well, at least not the same version. […]
Why It Matters 