It’s time for the Cousin Bobby Comparison! That’s what I used to do back in the deep dark ages of my tenure on college radio, before I got bounced when the regime I’d made friends with graduated and I went from having coveted slots to my own lunar rotation, once every two weeks instead of […]

That’s why I bought "Twice Removed From Yesterday", Robin Trower’s solo debut, because of "Broken Barricades". Who knew Robin Trower was such a hot guitarist in the mold of Jimi Hendrix? His work was buried in the art rock of Procol Harum until… "Home". I’ll admit to loving the title track of "Shine On Brightly", […]

My mother sent me the wrong album. I was a freshman in college and I told her to send me the second Band album and Joe Cocker’s debut. But she sent me "Stage Fright" and Cocker’s second album. And as a result, I know every lick on each of those records. You see I was […]

"Another Park, Another Sunday"The Doobie Brothers Normally, when I go through e-mail, I leave the music off, it breaks my concentration, especially on a day like today, where I’m trying to go through hundreds, catching up from being out of town. But testing out the upgrade of my Sonos app on my laptop I brought […]