It’s in black and white and it’s depressing and Bruce Dern doesn’t deserve an Oscar, anything else you’d like to know? I’ve been reading about this movie for months. Because that’s how you do it these days, you ramp up the publicity so that just maybe, people will go. I had to endure the history […]

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 […]

DELAYED GRATIFICATION In the era of instant, it’s about the complete opposite. You want it now, but in order for it to last you’ve got to wait to start, to gain experience, and you’ve got to keep at it with no obvious chance of success in sight. So elite college grads go for safety, soul-draining, […]

They didn’t care about music. We’re in the tech era. But what they don’t tell you is one day it’s gonna run out of gas, it will be replaced by something heretofore unseen, dominated by nerds who were poor and got no attention and will suddenly rule the earth. Kind of like how the techies […]