I was sitting at the kitchen table, reading the Sunday "New York Times", when I stumbled upon an article about Aretha Franklin in the "Arts & Leisure" section. When Aretha had her incredible run, back in the sixties, we didn’t think she’d still be the Queen of Soul in the twenty first century. Hell, we […]

In that eerie twilight after the sun sets, just before total darkness descends, I heard this string flourish come out of the speakers that I hadn’t heard in decades but was as familiar as my foot.  It was part of me.  Kind of like running into an old friend from summer camp, who you spent […]

I got the entire text from Don Passman, but being an attorney and noting the caveat at the bottom, I was reluctant to forward it to all my peeps. So I contacted the author, Richard Greenfield, who said I could quote excerpts and that I should refer my readers to http://paliresearch.com/, where they could register […]

Country radio has got problems. They play the same songs FOREVER! The day its audience gets iPods and/or satellite radio, the tightly-controlled Nashville scene is gonna implode. Country fans are subjected to a weird combination of Top Forty from the sixties and the nineties. There’s a homey feel like the sixties, only hits, but there’s […]