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Can't Get It Outta My Head
A Baby Boomer
Muses on The Music
Got to Graceland
The Continuing Digitization Project hasn’t been continuing much recently. But I finally decided I needed to rip the vinyl my friend Ron...
Separated by Seven Degrees on the Hot 100
Sports broadcaster Matt Vasgersian, when he was doing play-by-play for the Milwaukee Brewers, used to do what he called “Seven Degrees of...
2017’s Musical Passages, Part II
(Resuming last week’s review of Makers of The Music who passed away during 2017.) We lost some of the voices that provided us with...
2017’s Musical Passages, Part I
The recently-departed year perhaps wasn’t as tough on Makers of The Music as its predecessor, but there were some major musical passages...
Miller Light?
Periodically, SiriusXM’s Deep Tracks runs an audio clip of an interview with Steve Miller, during which the artist says something about...
A Hall Pass
Yes, I know I’ve written the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice in recent months. But I promise this will be the last time — until the next...
The Other Day The Music Died?
Feb. 3, 1959 is often referred to, somewhat hyperbolically, as “The Day that Music Died.” Yes, we lost three major early rock and roll...
Vote the Rock, Deck the Hall
Somebody give me one of those “I Voted!” stickers. No, it’s not a political election year, at least not in my neck of the woods — I voted...
Smoke Gets on Your Eau
I was driving one day last week, when it came on the satellite radio — one of the most recognizable opening riffs in all of rock:...


He Played in Peoria
This post originally was supposed to be about two artists, Dan Fogelberg and Emmylou Harris, specifically two of their albums that I had...
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