My mother had a two-tone Maxima, light and dark blue. It replaced the five cylinder Audi which was a great car when it ran right, which was rarely. Only buy Japanese cars. Unless you’re rich, or leasing, or both. And it was in this car I found myself driving on Route 7 from Middlebury to […]

1. The Wheels Of Progress Move Quickly The e-reader is being killed by the tablet. And the initial Kindle was only introduced five years ago. The first Kindle Fire was a disaster. It sold prodigiously upon release but its lack of functionality was evidenced in the little web-surfing purchasers did with it. But credit Jeff […]

“Juliette” This was the first track I got. I bought “Dixie Chicken” based on a review and played it twice through and was flummoxed until this track, the second to last on the album, emerged. “Juliette” is sweet and subtle, in a world inundated with these qualities, which are absent from the hit parade. Think […]

I started with “Dixie Chicken.” It was the reviews and the song on the Warner Brothers sampler. And it took me a hell of a long time to get into it, to understand its understated magic. If you can put Patti Smith in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and not Lowell George, I […]