"Ahead Rings Out" is not in the American Spotify library. Yes, my playlist this week included songs from Blodwyn Pig’s debut. Only one problem, that album is in the international Spotify database, but not the U.S. aggregation. Frustrating? You bet! I had to hunker down and compile a whole new playlist! But I didn’t want […]

So you think all record companies are backwards… Anyway, the company with the most antiquated catalog, Rhino, is jumping into Spotify in a big way. They asked me to do a playlist every week. Of course I’m getting paid, would you do it for free? But to use my ancestral language, it’s bupkes. It’s a […]

Please don’t dominate the rap JackIf you’ve got nothing new to say Either those lyrics are burned into your DNA or you’re clueless, there’s no middle ground. If I play you "New Speedway Boogie" you won’t say RIGHT, I remember hearing that on the radio… Either the closing track on side one of "Workingman’s Dead" […]

"A Little Bit Of Everything" It’s about that damn chicken wing. Records reveal themselves to you over time, you don’t digest them fully on the first play, you can get an insight listening even decades later. That’s the thrill of discovering a great new album, the way it reveals itself to you, like a new […]