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 […]

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 […]

Turn it on. Every casual listener I know is canceling his subscription. Then there are those who are diehards, who wouldn’t THINK of switching on FM, never mind AM, and don’t want to listen to iPods, because they never play anything you don’t KNOW! For a long time, I only listened to XM. But I’ve […]

John Batdorf and James Lee Stanley, performing their acoustic rearrangements of Stones songs, some solo stuff and recounting a bunch of rock history, like how Batdorf was signed to Ahmet’s Atlantic but then asked to be switched to Geffen’s Asylum for the second album and ultimately ended up on Clive’s Arista, which is the last […]