Jack Tempchin wrote “Peaceful Easy Feeling,” hear how it ended up on the first Eagles album. Tempchin also wrote “Slow Dancing,” as well as co-writing “Already Gone” with Robb Strandlund, “You Belong to the City” and “Smuggler’s Blues” with Glenn Frey, and composing “Someone That You Used to Know” for George Jones. Find out how […]

https://tinyurl.com/yc3anpmh This book is mind-blowingly good. But you won’t feel that way at first, you’ll think it’s a trifle, a direct lift of “Saturday Night Live,” akin to Curtis Sittenfeld’s book about Hillary Clinton, “Rodham,” wherein she breaks up with Bill before marriage and a different story ensues. I mean “Rodham” is a good read, […]

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/22bw79kn YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/mucz3as I thought it was by Eric Johnson. But it turned out it was by Eric JOHANSON! I’m a big fan of Eric Johnson. An astounding guitar player sans flashy personality who had a moment of mainstream fame and then disappeared. You see he was promoted by Hale Milgrim when he ran […]

Man, I was really f*cked up. I’d spell out the f-word, but then you wouldn’t receive this. For all the positive stories about the resurgence of e-mail newsletters, in truth it’s very hard to get past spam filters. Furthermore, Substack is in financial trouble. It’s even asking its writers for cash. This is like the […]