You see in the sixties, when the Beatles hit, we lived in one big homogenous Top Forty world.  Sure, there was a jazz scene.  And a big band scene.  But Top Forty was dominant, until the advent of underground FM radio.  Then the scene bifurcated.  It became about those in the know, and those out […]

Met my old lover in the grocery storeThe snow was falling Christmas Eve Hughes gave up the book business in New York to move to Denver to become a teacher.  I became involved with Felice, whose family owned a condo in Vail.  And thus a reunion was held.  Last summer.  2005.  On a rainy day […]

1. CD sales will continue to tank Sometime in the next twelve to eighteen months CD sales are going to decline so precipitously as to cause the major labels to rethink their digital strategy.  With the iTunes Store no replacement for discs, they’ll be forced to authorize a new method of distribution, just to maintain […]