I can see Jimmy play the guitar! I stayed up all night April 30, 1975 listening to "Physical Graffiti", not because I wanted to, but it was my last night in Utah and the dope dealers across the street were the only people I knew still in town, everybody else had disappeared with the end […]

So my friend Cathy says she’s going to go to work for Rob Gordon at W.A.R.? Huh? You mean the guy who used to work in A&R at EMI, who started his own label? Those never went anywhere, not twenty years ago. But then she unfolded the story of the Samples, how they left Arista […]

Spotify link – Electric Landlady "we’ve grown accustomed to treating ‘the music industry’ as synonymous with a handful of large recording companies."Why We Shouldn’t Worry About The (Alleged) Decline Of The Music Industry That’s from Timothy B. Lee’s report about Mike Masnick’s Midem presentation: The Sky Is Rising: The Entertainment Industry Is Large & Growing… […]

1. "I Ain’t Blue"I bought "Give It Up" first. And one of the great crimes of the digital era is that the original, faster version of "Too Long At The Fair" has been lost to vinyl, that’s the only place it appears, and it’s what hooked me on Ms. Raitt. And for a long time, […]