When Cousin/Alert Reader Bill K. shared music with me last summer, I found myself grabbing albums by John Cougar Mellencamp. (Or John...

When Cousin (and Alert Reader) Bill K. shared his music stash with me at the family reunion last summer, I used the opportunity to add...

Recorded a couple episodes of the public television live music series Austin City Limits recently, and thus got to listen to some new...

When I blogged about My Favorite Concerts last fall, I forgot a couple that, while they probably wouldn’t have made the Top 10, were...

Ringo said something along those lines in Hard Day’s Night, and I was a firm believer in the idea. But I kind of got out of the habit of...

The month of January includes both the 80th anniversary of Phil Everly’s birth, and the fifth anniversary of his death, which makes it a...

We resume our recapitulation of the Makers of the Music who left the planet during 2018: • Mickey Jones, who died at 76 on Feb. 7,...

The year 2018 has passed — and during it, so did a number of those involved in influencing and making The Music. It wasn’t quite as bad a...

My previous blog post was about our Wednesday activities in Nashville. We had tickets for a show on Friday, but no plans for Thursday....

Following up on this blog’s previous post, our visit to Music City USA spanned several genres, and uncovered some interesting items. As...