My goal is to stay off the phone.  But on one especially boring call, I clicked on the radio stations in iTunes, something I haven’t done for years, and discovered RadioIO Folk. I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a yearning for songs.  And intimacy.  And I find just about each and every cut […]

I’m fascinated by the decline of the American car industry. In today’s "New York Times" there’s an ode to the GTO When Pontiac Meant Muscle Which I knew from the Ronny & the Daytonas song, but didn’t truly appreciate until the 1967 model, three years after the car’s introduction, when the Pontiac was the sleekest […]

Jim Messina left, Richie Furay jumped ship for momentary success with J.D. Souther and Chris Hillman, and Messina and Furay’s replacements, Timothy B. Schmit and Paul Cotton, carried on with original members Rusty Young and George Grantham to a new label, never to have success until Timothy B. jumped ship too and a band that […]

My favorite promoter is Don Strasburg.  He doesn’t care about the label, none of the traditional metrics L.A. insiders triangulate, he’s into artist development, the desire of people to see a band and the increase that results.  If you want to know who’s up and coming, or who is not truly dead, get ahold of […]