The Waiting – Spotify The Waiting – YouTube How do you follow up a hit album? That’s the dilemma Bruno Mars is facing and it appears he’s failing the test. Music is frequently best when it’s a Rorschach test, when you think less and just react. Imagine what music would sound like if it was […]

So I’m telling Don Was how good the Stones album is. No, actually that’s untrue. I was talking to Jerry and Sue. Who I know from the Palisades. They were fish out of water, they’re social friends of Barnett, they wanted to know…WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE? So I introduce them to Don Passman, who […]

Neil Young – Spotify They all come back to the garden. Let this be a lesson to those holding out, the streaming deniers, this is now, this is happening, get on the gravy train or be left behind. It always happens. Do you remember when acts wouldn’t let their albums be released on CD? Hell, […]

And the winner was… STURGILL SIMPSON! Who excoriated Nashville and the ACM and CMA for embracing Merle Haggard posthumously when they pushed him aside during his lifetime. Sturgill Simpson is an outsider. And people love him for it. Whenever I write about country music I hear his name most, my inbox overflows, he’s got rabid […]