Every once and a while, you see some cultural artifact from the past — a song, a TV show, a print advertisement, whatever — and think,...

The focus of this blog has been The Music of the 1960s and’70s, but its “to do” list has always included some musing on where rock and...

The “American Bandstand” meme, “It had a nice beat, it was easy to dance to,” apparently is apocryphal, but you can say of the TV...

I have noted previously that my new music purchases fall into three types, one of which is Filling in the Corners — catching up on...

In last week’s post, while writing about what Mink DeVille was doing with the album “Le chat bleu,” there was a line from a song that was...

A while back, on his excellent “Buried Treasure” show on SiriusXM, Tom Petty played a song by Mink DeVille. Which prompted me to wonder,...

I was trying to get away from writing these Requiems for Rock Stars, but they keep dropping like flies (Firesign Theatre callback alert),...

Back in the very late 1960s, Billy Preston was sometimes referred to as “the fifth Beatle.” Already an accomplished session keyboardist...

The Continuing Digitization Project earlier this year went into the reggae section of my friend Ron’s Vinyl Vault. And after ripping four...

Opening My Ears These days, I’m listening to The Music more like the way I did when it was contemporaneous. Over stereo speakers, that...