Novelist, college professor, rock musician - are we getting the band back together? Maybe....
Hank: a Storyteller’s Story tells a tale of identity theft of the most literal kind and how, as victims discover their true identities how much our pasts inform our futures. Rick Burnham’s brief […]
The scream at the end – “no reply!” – is one of the bleakest moments in the breakup song genre. “It was my version of “Silhouettes”: I had that image of walking […]
Successful artists feel constant commercial pressure to repeat their sales success – a pressure that can make any artist choose a safe route. …so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly […]
If what Lennon says is true, “I Wanna Be You Man” has a special place in rock history. “It was a throwaway. The only two versions of the song were Ringo and […]
Authenticity. Music. Freedom. Whether you’re Elvis Presley or Sleepy LaBeef, if you can have the courage to follow Sam Phillip’s advice, you can’t be a loser. “You can be a nonconformist and […]
Guralnick’s Lost Highway runs smack through the heart of Nashville’s Music Row – as with corporate Pop, Country & Western has always been about sales and little else… “‘Outlaw’ is the word […]
It was the first Beatles record I bought, but it wasn’t my favorite Beatles song. “We wrote a lot of stuff together, one-on-one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in ‘I Want To Hold […]
Being an artist is hard; being a successful artist is even harder. “You see, from the honky tonks you got such a mixture of all different types of music, and I think […]
And so The Beatles acquired a third great songwriter… “‘Don’t Bother Me’ I wrote in a hotel in Bournemouth, where we were playing a summer season in 1963, as an exercise to […]
In “The Fool on the Hill” McCartney was writing about the Maharishi. And perhaps himself. “He never listens to them… He knows that they’re the fools” – Paul McCartney Here’s the thing about […]
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