I missed this one. The funny thing is to look back at Blues Image and realize not only did the band contain Pinera, but Joe Lala. How in the hell did Joe end up going from Blues Image to working with Stephen Stills? Was it a Florida connection? Something to do with Criteria? “Stephen Stills […]

Spotify: https://t.ly/MD1gv YouTube: https://t.ly/0JaoZ Spotify slipped into “Sweet Black Angel.” Never my favorite track on “Exile on Main Street” but I love the sound…it’s sparse, nearly naked, and today everybody is covering up. I’m always interested in what Spotify will play after my chosen tracks/albums are done. To see what the algorithm presents. And hearing […]

She died. Who’s that? Alice from “Alice’s Restaurant”! Oh, they had an Alice’s Restaurant in my hometown. Didn’t they even have one on the Malibu Pier? Always homey inside, with barnboard and healthy food… NO! That was all in the wake of the song, the movie and… The sixties are over, but once upon a […]

Subject: RE: 74 Of ’74 For an interesting exercise, compare this 50-years-after-the-fact list with the Top Album list Rolling Stone actually issued in 1974. The original list had jazz or jazz-fusion albums in each of the top five spots. In this list, the top-rated jazz album is Miles Davis at 32 – and Miles wasn’t […]