https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/magazine/greatest-american-songwriters-alive.html Chris Willman wrote the definitive piece on this in “Variety”:  “Where in the Actual Hell Is Randy Newman? And Other Questions Raised by the New York Times’ Greatest Living American Songwriters List” https://variety.com/2026/music/columns/new-york-times-greatest-songwriters-list-missing-randy-newman-1236733511/ Now I’ve known Chris for a long time. He takes his music seriously and is especially knowledgeable about country for a […]

Mr. Train. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pat-monahan/id1316200737?i=1000764682141 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/234ce748-18a7-4316-b8af-43ad455edd01/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-pat-monahan

Subject: RE: Mike Vernon Bob, John Mayall never used my service to find musicians but his wife’s all female band “Maggie Mayall and the Cadillacs” used me several times.  Anyway, Sammy, Mayall’s 10 year old son, (this was in 2005) was on my kid’s Little League baseball team. John would attend most every game in […]

1 He’s dead. The media has been positively shocked that a film with uniformly negative reviews is doing so well at the box office. After all, isn’t Michael Jackson a child molester in a zero tolerance era? Look at Cesar Chavez, he was scrubbed from modern life within a week. Whereas with Michael Jackson new […]