Why don’t they just make the concerts free! Okay, if I want to go to the show, I’ve got to get not only a Citibank card, but an Amex. And I’ve got to join the fan club too. So in this rolling wave of pre-sales, maybe I can get a seat. Which won’t be too […]

After breakfast at Mother’s, Marty, Felice and myself took a cab deep into the French Quarter to the McDonogh School, where the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation was presenting the music program with a slew of instruments.  That’s what the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation does, grant instruments to school music programs.  It was started by Michael […]

Riverboats were the CDs of the first half of the nineteenth century.  An era that many U.S. inhabitants of the time thought would never end, for many it was all they knew.  Then Abe Lincoln persuaded the government to allow a railroad bridge at Rock Island and the paddle wheels stopped turning. I’ve never been […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a Presidential candidate is cooler and has more charisma than the owner of the #1 record? One in which music is a second class citizen, manipulated by Clintonesque figures mired in the past. To put Alicia Keys up with Frank Sinatra is to […]