In the end, the subject was about time and how time slips away. That realization was voiced by Bruce Springsteen two hours into his concert at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, after he and the E Street band played the entire […]
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Carly Simon might have been guided by the clouds in her coffee but David Bowie had mammoth moonage daydreams. There was something larger than life, other or outer-worldly about Bowie, who transformed folk songs originally made under his birth name Davy […]
On a confusing day, cold, overcast — I keep bumping into tables and walls, and electronics don’t seem to like me — I find myself thinking about the blues. I land on seven blues songs that seem like markers, […]
I remember the first time I heard Bill Haley’s “Rock around the Clock.” I was visiting old friends on the beach in Westport, Connecticut, which I had moved away from a year or two before to live and go to […]
As a new contributor to this site (although I’ve read it for years), here are a few thoughts on music from a 50-year-old white guy… I’ve spent my life trying to explain to people why I enjoy the music I like, and […]
There’s no city in America that once defined labor quite like beautiful, hardscrabble Pittsburgh. Our workers produced the big, hard, heavy, clanging things that made the world go ’round: iron, steel, aluminum, glass, massive rotors, giant generators. Nobody worked as […]
Omaha singer-songwriter Matt Whipkey says it was “a real honor” warming up for Dwight Yoakam at six recent shows in five states. “For any artist, it is a positive experience sharing a bill with a someone of Dwight’s caliber,” says […]
I took a road trip with “Born to Run” yesterday. It’s the 40th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s groundbreaking album, and there’s no better way to experience it than by blasting it in your car, with the windows open and the […]
Summer has a certain cadence. There’s a rhythm of long days, the beach beckons and the pace of office life creates the illusion that time is slowing. There’s also that moment when you step outside and smell the air and […]
I doubt that anyone could have missed the news this week that, 40 years ago, Bruce Springsteen released his Born to Run album. Somebody somewhere was working hard behind the scenes, getting the word out. Stories popped up all over major television networks […]
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