Emitt Rhodes – Spotify playlist 1 He was too good too soon in an era when giants walked the earth. Today it’s de rigueur to cut your album alone at home, you just fire up your computer and… There were no computers back then. It was an analog world. You used tape. And studio time […]

Maybe you have to know someone who died. Hope. It’s an elusive concept, but you need it to survive. Not blind hope, but a belief based on facts, on odds, on the notion that if you do the right thing events will work out in your favor. But not only your favor, but everybody’s favor. […]

1 I first heard “Uncle John’s Band” on WNEW-FM. It was June of 1970, the track was released as a single. Needless to say it wasn’t played on AM radio. Needless to say, most people had no idea who the Grateful Dead were. If they knew the name, they assumed it was a heavy metal […]

Last night I listened to Sean Hannity. I’d been hiking, listening to the “Daily” from the “New York Times” and the “Daily 202” from the “Washington Post.” The “Daily 202” is better. It’s shorter. It’s one big idea, plus a few short riffs every weekday. And it’s only as long as there’s information. As in […]