This guy could be the new Norah Jones. The lane is wide open, it’s unoccupied, it’s just that the American media has refused to embrace someone with talent whilst trumpeting young nincompoops in an effort to look hip. I went to pay fealty. It took me an hour forty to get there from Santa Monica, […]

Re: Dan Hicks Dear Bob, I can’t tell you how pleased I was to read your post on Dan Hicks. First, it helped bring me out of a deep funk I had been in since his wife Clare called me Saturday morning with the news that Dan had passed. Also, it was great to read […]

This is exactly what happened in 1964. Elvis was king. And then the Beatles wiped him off the map. We had a decade of rock and roll. It had been whittled down to a formula. Sure, Bobby Darin had talent, but Fabian and the other Bobby, Rydell, were marginal players. But that was music, a […]

Is 74 the new 27? Whereas the young rock stars die of misadventure…the oldsters seem to just wear out, to succumb to the maladies that affect the rest of us. And we don’t like this, because we want our heroes to live forever. Paul Kantner was an irascible fellow who could be notoriously hard to […]