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Charts Not Playlists

There’s a fiction that we all want to be doing our own thing, burrowing down into holes of our own device, satiated with a world only we control. But the truth is we want to feel part of humanity, we want to belong, and the further we get away from the rest of our fellow […]

John Glatt’s Fillmore Book

“Live at the Fillmore East and West: Getting Backstage and Personal with Rock’s Greatest Legends” What people don’t understand is classic rock was a revolution, populated by the disenfranchised, hungry to have fun and make a difference. To think that these degenerates could conquer the world and lead a nation was anathema to the powers-that-be, […]

Playing Up A Storm

Bob- Jeff Stevens here, I thought I’d “part the curtain” and give you a look inside :)   When you said “The advantage of being Nashville’s biggest star is you get to play with the biggest and best players.” I knew I had to reply. My son Jody Stevens and I worked in studios on this […]

What We Know

No one can know all the records, but god forbid you admit this, you’re pilloried by the self-anointed cognoscenti who believe they’re single-handedly carrying the torch of credibility and without them music would die. Ubiquity died in 2013. Everybody knew “Get Lucky,” “Blurred Lines” and “Royals.” Today a star is someone who appeals to few […]