And we thought the revolution would arrive as a result of the red/blue divide. When in truth, it’s all about income inequality. Please don’t criticize me for having sympathy for those screwed by the insurance companies. If I were in charge, there’d be no guns at all, or a law akin to that in Australia. […]

“At $45.5BM in 2023, Music Copyright Now Worth More Globally Than Cinema, New Report Finds”: https://t.ly/yDfV5 The devil is in the details. My inbox has been blowing up with the above story, it makes a good headline, but what you’ve got to know is… Recorded music revenues eclipsed those of the movies in the seventies. […]

Spotify playlist: https://t.ly/qVNws 1 Is this now a country song? I went last night to the Write-off Room to see the Sherman Oakies. Felice heard about it from Dean Parks’s wife Julie. A bunch of studio musicians playing…exactly what? I know some of the Dust Bowl classics from Ry Cooder. But there’s a giant hole […]

The country/rock band I was in many years ago covered Ride Captain Ride;  we had a reputation for playing tunes that were a bit outside of our genre.  I remember us being the middle act at a 5-band jamboree one Sunday afternoon.  We hit the opening piano riff and the members of the other 4 […]