More than 32 million people have already checked into the Eagles’ Hotel California, a country-rock landmark that first charted during Christmas week in 1976 and spent two months in the No. 1 slot. The group’s third chart-topper (following One of […]
Herb Pedersen just finished an exciting tour playing with Tom Petty and Mudcrutch. Yet, I wonder how many Mudcrutch fans at those incredible full-blown rock shows now remember the name of the talented backup singer, acoustic guitarist and banjoist who […]
To paraphrase Ecclesiastes, of the making of many music books there is no end. As I pointed out in last week’s column, there are enough new titles from publishers both large and small to keep us reading well into the […]
THANKS so much to everyone for your beautiful thoughts, comments and likes, it really helps. Here is how I came to write this lyric about Glenn: I got a package in the mail from Glenn Frey’s wife Cindy. She sent me […]
Last summer, I saw Matt Andersen perform twice. Each time, I was in awe of his powerful voice, his clever songwriting, and how he seems to put every ounce of himself into every song. The first time was at a free […]
I stopped listening to the Eagles, one of my favorite bands in the early and mid-70s, when Hotel California came out. Maybe it was the loss of Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner and the addition of Joe Walsh—whom I had […]
Here’s a question: what’s your favorite version of “9,999,999 Tears”? Dickie Lee’s? Kelly Willis’? Whose version of “All Along the Watchtower” would you spin endlessly on a desert island: Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Mason, and U2 have all recorded […]
I don’t believe that my editor was too happy with me this week as the deadline for this column approached and she opened my email to discover that there were no attachments, photos or video links included. Nada. Zip. Nothing. […]
