Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Can We Agree On A Top Ten?

“Fix” was number one on Mediabase. But it was nowhere to be found on Spotify’s “Hot Country” playlist, which includes fifty one songs and is three hours and nine minutes long. I’d never heard it, “Fix” that is. A cut by newcomer Chris Lane that resembles your preconception of country not a whit. It’s closer […]

Dean Without Jan At The Levitt Pavilion

I  bought blue sneakers because that’s what Dean was wearing on the cover of the live album “Command Performance.” And they were not easy to find. In Fairfield, Connecticut, everybody wore P.F. Flyers or Keds, in white, black had gone out with the fifties, this was not California, Fairfield’s a lonely town when you’re the […]

Me On CNNi

Me On CNNi I can’t look at myself on screen and maybe you’ll find it painful too! I swear the hair I’ve got left has gone gray since the surgery and…when did I get so old? It’ll happen to you, isn’t that what our parents said? So I don’t believe in self-promotion and if you […]

CNNi

From: Adam Lewis Re: CNN Great job. Love that I am waking up in the Ukraine and am seeing you! Come a long way from the Xerox mailers. Best, A You’ve got to understand, I’ve been locked inside the house for months, staring at the four walls, there are only so many books you can […]