Archive for the 'The Music' Category


The Grammy Ratings

Were terrible. “Grammys Viewership Edges Out Last Year’s Record Low With Minor Gain”: https://bit.ly/3r3zw3V And that’s putting a positive spin on it. The story of the last two plus decades in the record business has been disruption. But the Grammy organization keeps on doing the same damn thing and expecting different results. A woman was […]

The Jon Batiste Victory

The producer can only do so much. At least the Grammys are smart enough to get an outsider, as opposed to the Oscars, which constantly use someone from their industry with ties to the past and no skill putting on a TV show. But Ben Winston can’t control the voting. Everyone agrees that last night’s […]

The Grammys

It’ll probably be a good show. But does that mean you have to watch it? Last year Ben Winston threw out Ken Ehrlich’s “Grammy Moment” playbook and created an intimate affair that seemed to live in the present as opposed to the past. But that does not mean the show will reflect people’s tastes. Prior […]

Re-Bob Seger

Loved your take on Bob Seger! I’ve worked as a background, & session singer and percussion player with him for over 40 years….  He’s one of the best tunesmiths of our time, still underrated, but I have to say that there  wasn’t a dry eye in the place on our last show on November 1, […]