You live long enough and you no longer worry about perception.  You know life is brief, that yours will soon be over and that the world is a game, where the winners lose and the losers frequently win.  Money can’t buy you love and fame doesn’t make you happy.  But a trusted companion and a […]

Gayle Fine at Q Prime gave me permission to tweet on Passover. So I had to send one about the ISP vote in France.  It didn’t pass.  My buddies John Kennedy and Paul McGuinness have egg on their faces.  I can understand Kennedy fighting the tide, that’s his job, he’s paid by record companies, but […]

Hi Bob, Just for the record, Elvis Costello has never produced any of Diana Krall’s albums. He co-wrote a few songs on her 2004 album "The Girl in the Other Room," but she and Tommy LiPuma have co-produced her last four or five records, including that one. Her prior Verve recordings were produced solely by […]

1. Keith Urban "Defying Gravity" Sales this week: 171,525Debut I find a play count of 74 for "Stupid Boy" in my iTunes library.  His show two years ago was the best I saw in 2007.  But this album is a disappointment.  The sound of the record can sometimes be great, especially the guitars, but the […]