DOWN ON ME Nobody heard it until after “Cheap Thrills,” but despite distant, lame instrumentation and production, Janis’s magic shines through. At first, we in the hinterlands, i.e. not San Francisco, were thrown off by Joplin’s vocals, the same way we were years later with Rod Stewart’s, but we soon became enamored of her voice. […]

Gotta Get To Know You – Spotify Gotta Get To Know You – YouTube And this is why algorithms will never replace deejays… I just got an e-mail from Mike Marrone, of Sirius XM’s Loft, he sent me a track from Foghat’s debut LP that immediately took me to a zone wherein I felt fuzzy […]

I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU The Willie Dixon cover that got no love in the “sophisticated” New York market. I learned about this track from my college buddy John Hughes, it was all over the radio in his hometown of Kansas City during the summer of ’72. That’s the way it used […]

I awoke today and found The frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky Then it gobbled summer down Greetings from Vail, Colorado, where it’s the final week of the season and I’m using zinc oxide on my lips to prevent blisters. Just a moment ago it was winter. I was wearing […]