1. Melody I know, I know, we live in an era of beats. But the public wants something they can sing along with. The biggest act in the business is Adele, and although she faltered with “25,” her previous album, “21,” outsold its competition by a factor of ten. You could sing along with the […]

They’re afraid. The dirty little secret of the last tour is it didn’t go clean, there were tickets available here and there. With all that production, with all those breakthroughs, with all that press… People didn’t want to hear the new songs. Ed Sheeran put out a couple of numbers last week and broke records. […]

If you didn’t go to Yale or Harvard, if you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, if you’re not boasting about getting no sleep because you work all day and go to charity events all night… You don’t count in America. Donald Trump’s election was a wakeup call. And the mainstream media […]

Layla and Assorted Other Love Songs 1 “Layla” was a stiff. Clapton was not God, certainly not in today’s way, everybody did not know his name, he was not all over the papers, he was not Drake and he was not Taylor Swift, he was just a guitarist in bands who those paying attention knew […]