By blending rock and roll, soul, country, blues, and jazz, the Allmans created a brand of music that nearly 50 years later sounds as fresh and original as it did when it […]
Some wasted words about Gregg Allman
Alamo Drafthouse / Wonder Woman sexism controversy: let’s have a men-only talk
Hey guys, let’s talk about this outrage man to man. Alamo Drafthouse is having women-only screenings of Wonder Woman. And across the country people of the male persuasion are losing their minds because it’s […]
Twin Peaks: The Return and the Red Room: a collaborative reverse spoken word
David Lynch inspired a generation of genius TV. And a moment of unfettered silliness. Yesterday blindsided me with a moment of sublime creative synchronicity. Twin Peaks fans … walk with me. First my […]
Strawberry Fields Forever… and ever… amen
“No one I think is in my tree…” John Lennon “Strawberry Fields” shouldn’t work – but it does. Brilliantly. The intriguing question is – why? Adulthood is all mixed up, as almost […]
A musician’s passing, and the passing of time …
by Amber Healy Even the music that has comforted me, inspired me, brought sanity to a broken world time after time, kept me company, kicked my ass into gear, healed other wounds […]
The End…is all about the love….
St. Paul and Sir Paul were trying to tell me pretty much the same thing as I said goodbye to someone I loved very much and will miss for the rest of […]
Random thoughts about the record album – part 4: singers and songwriters, concepts and collections
The album was king, thanks to male singer-songwriters (Crosby, Stills, Nash, James Taylor), female singer-songwriters (King, Simon, Mitchell) and bands like Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon) andThe Eagles (Hotel California). “You take […]
Random thoughts about the record album – part 3: the Beach Boys and the album as art and artifact
Sgt. Pepper’s gets a lot of credit for launching the “concept album,” but it never would have happened without Brian Wilson and Pet Sounds. “We were fed up with being the Beatles. We […]
“We Can Work It Out”: that wonderful harmonium
Not enough songs make use of the harmonium. “In ‘We Can Work It Out,’ Paul did the first half, I did the middle eight. But you’ve got Paul writing, ‘We can work […]
Chronicles Part 1: Bob Dylan being Bob Dylan
Dylan gonna be Dylan. But in his memoir he reminds us why he’s Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about […]
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