James Taylor was on the cover of "Time" and from there it was downhill. Each album thereafter less lauded and less commercially successful. Although it had the hit "Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight", "One Man Dog" was unjustly ignored. The second side is the closest anyone’s gotten to the "Abbey Road" suite since. But […]

I’d turned around two days before. In Salt Lake City the weatherman was a god. When you live to ski, you become addicted to the forecast. And that’s all we had back then, the TV forecast. Which was imprecise and more of a guess than truth so when they said it might snow in northern […]

These tracks have nothing in common other than I discovered them listening to XM’s Loft. I didn’t want satellite radio, didn’t need it, but when Lee Abrams reached out and insisted they put a radio in my car I acceded, eventually. And the very first day I was blown away, when I heard Steve Miller’s […]

I was drinking Golden Cadillacs at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar. It was a reward for finishing my thesis. A trip to Jackson Hole. Where it dumped four days straight and then the sun came out and turned the snow into corn up top and mashed potatoes down below. Yes, I skied Corbet’s, navigated the […]