The first thing you’ve got to know is the U.S. and U.K. releases were different. The second thing you need to know is I didn’t buy it upon release. It had no hit singles. Albums were a value proposition. “Rubber Soul” was the LP that broke the paradigm. But we didn’t know that yet. At […]

Music is turning into baseball. There’s no sense of history. For all the fealty paid to classic rock, the truth is the past gets very little ink, even though it can dominate listening. And if you’re not the Beatles or Pink Floyd you may get neither, no attention and no streams. And that’s just plain […]

What if perfection doesn’t exist? What if what you’re looking for can’t be found? They tell us we can be anything we want to be, even President. Then not only do we not want to be CEO of the country, but we just can’t grab the brass ring, as we get older we can’t even […]

ON YOUR WAY DOWN Little Feat The same dudes you misuse on your way up You might meet up On your way down I bought “Dixie Chicken” because of incredible reviews. And when I broke the shrinkwrap and dropped it on the turntable…I didn’t understand it, not at all. But I kept playing it, BECAUSE […]