What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a Billy Gibbons throwaway track is more memorable than the complete album ZZ Top did with Rick Rubin? One in which music has ceased being spontaneous and is over-written, over-rehearsed and over-managed to death. Feel the GROOVE! And listen to Billy’s guitar work. […]

1. Excellence If it’s not great, don’t release it. Put it up on YouTube, not the album, if you’re trying to get everybody’s attention, make sure your music deserves it. 2. Availability Put your complete album on YouTube and all streaming services. That’s where people discover your music. Your hard core fans will buy it, […]

When you’re really depressed, you don’t want to hear anything, no music will work. I learned that in William Styron’s account of his fall off the edge, into a mental hospital, “Darkness Visible.” And that’s true. It’s like you can’t handle the noise. And you don’t want to be lifted back up, you need to […]

What do you do when everybody is watching? He wrote songs for Gary Lewis, made an album with Marc Benno, but no one knew who Leon Russell was until he went on the road with a conglomeration of thirty-odd people entitled “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” a legendary tour from which Joe Cocker emerged drunk, broke […]