This year’s Alabama Shakes. I’m a triangulator. I wait until all indicators flash red. Then I pay attention. I’m not saying I did not check out St. Paul & The Broken Bones from the initial e-mail regarding their music, but when friends start tweeting about it, when more people start e-mailing me about it, I […]

PEACHES EN REGALIA Because most people would not believe it was him, didn’t know it was him and were surprised it was him when they heard it coming out of the speaker. An instrumental, you cannot help but conduct the theoretical orchestra with your hands. For the newbie, for the non-fan…you’ll be immediately enraptured, especially […]

A SONG FOR JEFFREY Purists believe the initial album is best, “This Was,” the one before Mick Abrahams left. If nothing came after, Tull would be seen as English blues progenitors, but a hit changes all perceptions. There were no hits on “This Was,” but I’d start here, with the signature flute intro and then […]

WILLIN’ And if you give me weed, whites and wine And you show me a sign Well I’ll be willin’, to be movin’ Probably the most famous road/trucker/dope song of all time. Then again, is that a category of one? I discovered “Willin’” in the fall of ’71 in a cover version by Seatrain. Check […]