If Atlantic Records can start paying royalties to all the old African-American musicians it ripped off in its heyday can’t NARAS start giving Grammy awards to artists it has criminally overlooked over the ages?  Especially the unsung, those in need of remembrance, those not shining as bright as Led Zeppelin? First and foremost I nominate […]

A great album is a companion.  You don’t even need to possess it to be soothed.  You’ve listened enough to be able to play it in your head. Now a detailed examination of history will tell us Norman Winter had a huge hand in breaking Elton John in the U.S.  In other words, one cannot […]

What Will Disappear: Discs It’s going to happen sooner than you think.  What with Apple introducing a $149 Nano and a $69 Shuffle today.  We’ve seen this movie again and again.  Old wave technology holds its own, with slight erosion, and then CAVES!  It happened in photography, it’s going to happen in music.  And the […]

Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dreamAdam raised a Cain In the hallway Andy Gould lamented that there wasn’t anybody shy of retirement age that could get up on stage and fete James Taylor. Oh, India Arie acquitted herself well.  And Keith Urban rocked the house.  But Keith Urban shares James […]