1. "Winter" The Rolling Stones One can argue whether the Stones peaked with "Beggars Banquet", "Let It Bleed" or "Sticky Fingers", iconoclasts can trumpet "Exile On Main Street", and I’m one of them, but no one can dispute the great decline began with "Goats Head Soup". We expected more. Sure, there was a big hit, […]

Once upon a time Stevie Wonder was a washed-up teen phenom, the Justin Bieber of his era, if Bieber were truly talented. Oh, that’s unfair. Just give a listen to 1971’s "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2". It’s the forgotten tracks that kill. Give a spin to "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day". It positively SWINGS! I know you dance in the […]

Re: Rhinofy-Cuts Like A Knife Hi Bob, Thanks for the generous tribute, very kind. I wrote ‘Straight From The Heart" and "I’m Ready" in 1978 when I was 18, ("I’m Ready" was written with Jim Vallance)I spent hours on a piano that i’d bought from savings my parents had put aside for my education, just […]

I know, I know, I’m supposed to feature something exotic, something lost to the sands of time, something that deserves a flashlight upon it. But I was just in the grocery store and I thought the song intro’ing over the PA was "Straight From The Heart". SoCal is weird. There really is no winter. It […]