Don’t believe everything you read. Or to put it more bluntly, if “Rolling Stone” can get it wrong, what makes you so sure what’s on Fox News is correct? In the information age, we’ve got plenty of gossip, a lot of rabble-rousing, but truth can be hard to find. Because not everyone wants to go […]

My favorite cut on the first Led Zeppelin album is “Your Time Is Gonna Come.” Didn’t used to be, I came to that one late. I first liked “Good Times Bad Times,” it was a perfect single in an era where FM and AM were diverging and the latter would never play anything like it. […]

Aren’t we supposed to hate corporations? But Tim Cook wrote a piece in the “Washington Post” and the governor blinked, it was techies and WALMART that stopped Indiana in its tracks. Isn’t this what musicians used to do? But musicians are afraid of offending people, afraid of being “Dixie-Chicked,” busy complaining that they just can’t […]

BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins The first time most people were exposed to Joni Mitchell, even though they didn’t know it. This single was iconic, mostly for the sound and Judy Collins’s voice. When we ultimately heard Joni’s version, on her second album, 1969’s “Clouds,” we were astounded to find it sounded completely different, with […]