What kind of bizarre world do we live in where the hype is bigger than the music? Welcome to 2018, when ancient artists depend upon the press to do their bidding and their new music has no impact. Talk about adjusting to the paradigm…they don’t. Just like the rockers decrying streaming payments as they fade […]

More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14 It’s a completely different record. I first heard “Tangled Up In Blue” on the access road to Mammoth Mountain. I’d agreed to meet people I barely knew at the stop sign in town, but being early I figured I’d check out the ski area. And it […]

Geiger just called me from the airport, he said he was going to see Zhu at Red Rocks, it was sold out, did I know Zhu? NO! You hate to admit this. Even in this overpopulated world where no one really knows what’s going on. So after I got off the call I pulled up […]

It didn’t end until 12:30 AM, when they threw us out of the SiriusXM studio. I was disappointed Yoakam arrived late, but as soon as he got there he sat down in a chair and started riffing and I was stunned… THIS GUY IS SMART! In a dumb business, where oftentimes the musicians are stoners […]