Happy Song Playlist “Big Barn Bed” Paul McCartney and Wings The fourth time is the charm. “McCartney” was underrated, primarily because it signified the breakup of the Beatles, but it’s unjustifiably forgotten. Sure, it’s slight, but that’s part of its charm, it feels like something you’d cut at home. “Ram” was inferior. “Wild Life” was […]

Well, it doesn’t sound like anything else. As a matter of fact, it resembles nothing so much as an early seventies experimentation, when the audience’s ears were open to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Captain Beefheart and Terry Riley. The audience outgrew AM radio. And before FM went top forty in most markets, via the Superstars format, […]

Live Pittsburgh 1976 Live shows used to be rare, to the point where it was a staple of a band’s career to release a double live album of their greatest hits, even though it did not count against their label quota as per the contract. And there was the King Biscuit Flower Hour. If it […]

Well it won’t be long before another day We’re gonna have a good time And no one’s gonna take that time away You can stay as long as you like I fired up the big rig. I caught up on the latest episode of “Better Call Saul,” debated whether to finally dig into “Chernobyl,” but […]