Welcome to your lifeThere’s no turning back You expect the hits, and he did "Heart Of The Matter", even a faithful "Hotel California" instead of the Spanish version the Eagles perform, despite the presence of a seven piece horn section, but some of the left turns were so mind-bending you wondered if this was the […]

Please don’t dominate the rap JackIf you’ve got nothing new to say Either those lyrics are burned into your DNA or you’re clueless, there’s no middle ground. If I play you "New Speedway Boogie" you won’t say RIGHT, I remember hearing that on the radio… Either the closing track on side one of "Workingman’s Dead" […]

I don’t know how it works economically, taking a six piece on the road to play clubs. Hornsby’s hits are decades behind him. And he’d be relegated to soft ticket dates or the dreaded day job if he didn’t take a left turn and play with the Dead. What looked like a mistake way back […]

"There’s definitely a shift going on now, too. When the Grammys were on this year, I noticed that almost every Album of the Year nominee was under 30. I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were […]