My favorite cut on the first Led Zeppelin album is “Your Time Is Gonna Come.” Didn’t used to be, I came to that one late. I first liked “Good Times Bad Times,” it was a perfect single in an era where FM and AM were diverging and the latter would never play anything like it. […]

BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins The first time most people were exposed to Joni Mitchell, even though they didn’t know it. This single was iconic, mostly for the sound and Judy Collins’s voice. When we ultimately heard Joni’s version, on her second album, 1969’s “Clouds,” we were astounded to find it sounded completely different, with […]

I can’t get this song out of my head. It’s very easy to ignore the Top Forty. It’s very easy to ignore all music. That’s what the business and inside fans don’t understand, that they’re in a bubble and what they live for, their passion, oftentimes doesn’t translate. I live for the Howard Stern show. […]

I can’t stop playing this. I discovered it on the Spotify playlist “Top 100 Country Tracks,” which I follow and have synched to my phone and when I’m burned out on the usual suspects I pull it up and see what’s going on in the country world. And too many of the tracks are me-too. […]