The DeVille that Didn’t SellAwhile back, on his excellent “Buried Treasure” show on SiriusXM’s Deep Tracks, I heard Tom Petty play a song by Mink DeVille. Which...
What the Hall?I haven’t blogged about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for several years, having been put off my feed my by some of dumb choices made by...
A Hell of a BatSuppose you were to meet the artist who recorded Bat Out of Hell, one of the best-selling albums of all time. How would you address him —...
A Belated ‘So Long’ to the Gypsy SongmanSomehow I missed it, but Ronald Clyde Crosby died a year ago in October. Had I known, I would have blogged about him then. Name not...
Past the Threshold of an EdgeGraeme Edge left the planet two and a half weeks ago. Even a diehard fan of The Music might not recognize his name. But if you were a...
Joni’s GuysThe soundtrack for our campfire the Sunday before last was an iMusic shuffle of the four Joni Mitchell albums I have in the library. It...
Tribute to a Texas TroubadourIt’s not unusual for there to be a song stuck in my head for days, where that temporal tape recorder keeps running the same loop. But...
We Lost a Planet AirmanAnother notable musician left the stage last week, without doing an encore. George Frayne IV left the planet Sept. 26 in Saratoga...
‘Hell’ Flowed Over, TooThe other night, I found myself watching Hell Freezes Over, the 1994 reunion of the Eagles, for the second time in a few weeks. Why view...
An ‘Echo’ of the Soundtrack of My LifeListening, as I often do, to the Sirius XM satellite radio channel Deep Tracks, I heard of the motion picture “documentary” Echo in the...