The problem is, it’s no longer 2001, when Jimmy Iovine conspired to take over the airwaves and promote Enrique Iglesias and Fred Durst alongside the Boss and Neil Young.  That was appointment television. There is no more appointment TV.  I wait until the next day, to hear what’s good, then I watch it on YouTube.  […]

In the town where I was raisedThe clock ticks and the cattle grazeTime passed with amazing graceBack where I come from "Back Where I Come From"Mac McAnally I got an e-mail from Scott Borchetta, proprietor of Big Machine and Valory Records, singing the praises of both his indie labels and one of his charges, Justin […]

LOVE HAS NO PRIDE A revelation. Have you ever been left? It hurts bad enough to go first, you’re wracked with guilt.  But when you’re left behind, you’re truly at loose ends.  You were the last to know.  Usually your beloved decided to move out, to dump you long before.  They’re over the emotional hump.  […]

That was FANTASTIC! Metallica lacked the bottom, that visceral pounding on your chest that you get at a live gig.  They proved conventional wisdom, that rock and roll doesn’t work on TV. I stumbled into last night’s 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert during Paul Simon.  When Crosby & Nash joined him […]