Why was everybody there? I e-mailed Stacey to park beneath the building and she said: "I’m glad you already have tickets, because this show is totally sold out." Huh? Daniel Glass told me it was a tight ticket, but he owns the label.  What was bringing 2,000 plus people out on a Sunday night? Was […]

Elvis was before my time.  When he was swiveling his hips on TV, I was still in diapers.  By time he surged back to prominence in the sixties, I was pissed that he was displacing the British Invasion superstars.  But when he died it was weird.  He was so young! I heard the news as […]

Patty Griffin did "Chief".  Shawn Colvin performed "Twilight" at the appropriate hour.  But the star was Buddy Miller. We’ve heard that you can’t make it after thirty, what about after FIFTY? Conventional wisdom is you build a star through hits.  But what if there are no hits, and no stars?  Welcome to the twenty first […]

I’m sipping Flor De Cana and lime juice, it’s three a.m. Maybe on the east coast.  But in L.A., it’s just shy of midnight. I should be winding down, loading up my car and driving to Felice’s house for some shut-eye.  But I’m all revved up, buzzed, even though writing’s ultimately gonna keep me up […]