Gillian Welch played "White Rabbit". It was that kind of night.  One of memories.  Most aged bands try to pretend only the audience got old.  They get plastic surgery, dye their hair, try to look like it’s still the sixties or seventies when the audience has gray hair, pot bellies and bad backs.  Aging is […]

Sometimes they’re hiding in plain sight. Sometimes you have to break all the rules. Corey Smith is working a new single at radio.  Slinking from station to station, trying to convince the gatekeepers. GIVE UP! Go to radio last. Go directly to the people.  They get it. I’ve known Corey’s manager for years, even skied […]

Bob, When I was in high school in Lyndhurst, Ohio, there was a place called the Chagrin Armory, where the up and coming bands would play. It was basically just a huge, empty concrete warehouse, with terrible acoustics, but it could probably hold 1500 people. I heard The Outsiders were going to be playing there, […]

I didn’t see one person I knew.  Either inside or waiting outside for the 10 PM show. That’s the modern music business. Yes, he played "We Can’t Make It Here", but the highlight for me was the opening number, "Down Across The Delaware". Watch the video here: James McMurtry – Down Across The Delaware  (Sorry […]