Credit Bruce Fairbairn. Have you heard “Turn Me Loose” recently? It’s usually on Classic Rewind or ’80s on 8. I’m drifting along, just minding my own business, in that fog you enter when you’re behind the wheel, and then… There’s that ascending synth note. Takes forever. Kind of like a space launch. Then you’ve got […]

“Look At Miss Ohio” The highlight of Buffalo Springfield at the Santa Barbara County Bowl was this. A live rendition by Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings of a cult song everybody in the Americana/No Depression world knows but which has never appeared on Top Forty radio and has not been lauded by the mainstream press. […]

Were you ever a fan of Crosby, Stills & Nash? You remember, the band with the perfect harmonies that charmed the girls and were loved by the boys too? Who were sensitive without being wimpy…well, except for a few Graham Nash tracks. Oh, maybe you’re younger than that. Let’s fast-forward twenty years, to Toad The […]

Reggae music was supposed to take over the world. At least that’s what “Time” magazine said. The hype was everywhere. And we didn’t even know how to pronounce it! Most people thought it was said the same as the name of that rich kid in the Archie comics, REGGIE music! Like Reggie Jackson. But Reggie […]