Who are these people?? If you’re watching television in a linear fashion, using the clicker to bounce from station to station in real time… You must be a baby boomer. Everybody else got the memo, that visual entertainment is an on demand medium. Something to be called up when you so desire. To the point […]

And the winner is… ELLE KING! With an honorable mention to Bob Seger, but his performance had so much more gravitas at the Glenn Frey memorial at the Forum, an insider affair that got no publicity but was the highlight of the year, because when it comes to rock and roll, it’s a club, and […]

My shrink saw it. We don’t have that kind of relationship, one wherein he shares his personal story. It’s all about me, all the time, which I find a bit difficult, I tend to reflect the sun upon others. Ask somebody a question, show interest, and they’ll go on forever, they’ll tell you their deepest, […]

And the winner was… STURGILL SIMPSON! Who excoriated Nashville and the ACM and CMA for embracing Merle Haggard posthumously when they pushed him aside during his lifetime. Sturgill Simpson is an outsider. And people love him for it. Whenever I write about country music I hear his name most, my inbox overflows, he’s got rabid […]