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 […]

Hasn’t he got enough money? Then again, maybe he’s not only exclusive to Apple, maybe you can hear his new album “Cosmic Hallelujah” via Amazon, but I doubt it and researching it is too hard, these acts don’t realize Apple and Amazon’s streaming services are narrow silos whose contents are invisible to those who do […]