Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Covid/Concerts

“Crowded Lollapalooza music festival could bring cascade of Covid cases, experts warn – Infectious disease experts worry that precautions were insufficient, and infections may have spread among the 100,000 daily audience”: https://bit.ly/2WSvsrj So this is how it appears to be playing out. Corporations are closing their doors to the unvaccinated, you can’t work for Disney […]

The Rickie Lee Jones Book

“Last Chance Texaco”: https://amzn.to/37gCYhm It’s amazing she’s alive. This book has not gotten enough press. It’s the absolute best book about being an artist in the rock world that I’ve ever read. It’s beyond honest. Most people are feeding the starmaking machinery behind the popular song, but not Rickie Lee, she stands alone, she does […]

Long Covid

Lewis Hamilton is one of the most fit athletes on the planet. Today the Formula 1 race was in Budapest. That’s Hungary in case you didn’t know. Not that I could have pulled it out of my ass. And when they showed an aerial picture of the Danube running through town, it all came together, […]

Mailbag

From: Tom Rush Subject: Re: Blue Bob, I had the honor of being the first to record Joni’s songs — before she did — on my Circle Game album. (I tried to get Jac Holzman at Elektra to sign her up, he said she sounded too much like Judy Collins.) My recollection is that, while […]