Let’s get this out of the way right up front: Leonard Cohen could sing the text from a Dairy Queen menu and it would sound like something written by a prophet who spends his life trudging up a mountain, battling […]
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This started out as a simple concert review, but evolved into something much more (obviously)…a description of my discovery of a band I’d always wanted to check out and that I fell wholeheartedly in love with when I did… Very […]
Charlie Louvin was a Grammy nominated member of the Grand Ol Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame. As a member of the Louvin Brothers, Charlie racked up twenty-nine Billboard charting singles with his brother Ira. He enjoyed continued […]
Anyone interested in reading the memoir of the late Gil Scott-Heron already knows the brother has a way with words. The telling of Heron’s story in his own words brings a lot of potential. This book achieves some of that […]
There’s nothing scientific about this list, just some thoughts on the albums that I’ve enjoyed most this year. (Presented in no particular order…) Best of the Best: Charles Bradley – No Time for Dreaming I first saw Charles Bradley as […]
I’m not a big “singles” guy. Well, more accurately I used to not be. I’ve always been an “album” guy, preferring an entire record as an artistic statement, rather than a single song. However, when your musical tastes run as […]
Best of the Best: Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever – Will Hermes One of the best and most unique music histories I’ve ever read. Rather than focusing on one specific […]
A Facebook friend made a great observation in the wake of the announcement of Amy Winehouse’s death: “Don’t know why I would be sad about Amy Winehouse, but I am – life is tough. And I don’t even have the […]
“…The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, […]
The Reverend John Wilkins visited Off Broadway in St. Louis last Wednesday (July 13th). Despite a horribly mismatched opening act (a guitar-and-drums duo in their early twenties, obviously living out their White Stripes fantasies), it was a magical night. The […]
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