Let me state the obvious at the outset: I got nothing for you. Spent the last few weeks immersed in reading four Elmore Leonard novels from the 1970s and have been binge-watching murder and mayhem on Netflix from all over […]
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Each week when the new releases become available, I grab whatever I think might interest me and throw it into a playlist. I don’t curate it or make it public, it’s just my personal-virtual-digital equivalent of that stack o’ albums […]
Over one billion hours of content are viewed each day on YouTube according to Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis company. They’ve also calculated that over four hundred hours of new content are uploaded to the site each minute of […]
I was crawling around the concrete floor downstairs in the basement of The Strand, the massive indie bookseller just south of Union Square on Broadway in Manhattan, looking for nothing in particular when I came across a worn paperback about […]
I don’t even know the Dixie Chicks, but I find it an insult for all the men and women who fought and died in past wars when almost the majority of America jumped down their throats for voicing an opinion. […]
On Sunday night, March 4, 2018, as he sat in front of his television sipping whiskey and watching the Academy Awards, Russ Solomon passed away at age 92. He will be forever known as the man who opened up a […]
There are weeks I want to read and write about music, and weeks that I could care less about who is going on tour or what new albums are being released. Like many of you, I was deeply upset hearing […]
I’m not sure that the twangy contingent of the roots music intelligentsia will agree with me on this one, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the vocal group harmony style that emerged out of African American communities in […]
Between the rapid rise and fall of the popular MP3 file sharing site Napster in 1999 and the launch of Spotify in 2007, a new music distribution platform emerged that was in equal measure criminal, historical, and fanatical. With a […]
Back in 1958 a young singer-songwriter from West Virginia named Bill Browning recorded for a small regional record label. After one of his tunes – “Borned With The Blues” – was released, the song on the flip side of the […]
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