Singer/songwriter extraordinaire. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lucinda-williams/id1316200737?i=1000637032294 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/ac1e830e-e7f7-4928-a9bc-aef254031aed/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-lucinda-williams

https://tinyurl.com/4pfs8r4k Are you watching this? I’d never heard of it. But “The Week” recommended it and… Every year on my birthday I do three things, eat a pastrami sandwich, watch a movie and have an ice cream sundae. And during lockdown I watched a movie highly recommended by “The Week” and it was a dud. […]

1 The punk bands survived, the new wave ones did not. Which is exactly the opposite of what one would have thought back then. You’d think the more left field, the less mainstream, the shorter the lifespan. But it turned out 20/20 and the Pop and the Know and the Kats…  The list goes on […]

https://tinyurl.com/yur6kvdh This is an amazing book. One of the ten best of the year according to “The Washington Post,” shortlisted for the Booker Prize, but it isn’t simple to read. Because it’s set in Ireland, with Irish words, and one character’s passages are printed sans periods. But “The Bee Sting” is not “Ulysses,” it’s far […]