SUENO You buy these records and you never hear your favorites live, especially today, when bands are afraid to play their deep cuts, for fear of boring their audience, especially if aged. Yes, that’s what we are, we baby boomers. Old. We try to deny it. Act like hipsters. But it’s the aches and pains […]

SPOONER OLDHAM About fifteen minutes into the movie, Spooner Oldham walks across the floor of FAME studios, sits down at a ratty old piano, puts his fingers to the keys and starts to play music so soulful, I tingle as I write this, remembering it. RICK HALL He was motivated by rejection, he needed to […]

He was interested in ME! Not a day goes by where I don’t get e-mail imploring me to waste my time listening to someone I usually don’t know try and sell me something I don’t need. That’s what they want, some of my time, so they can convince me to help them get ahead. Huh? […]

“How country music went crazy: A comprehensive timeline of the genre’s identity crisis” At least they’re having the debate, no one’s fighting over the soul of rock. Will the traditionalists pull country out of the proverbial ditch, leaving trucks and babies by the wayside, or has country truly left Nashville and is just another pop […]