"We Can’t Make It Here" is the most played MP3 in my iTunes library. On this computer, which I purchased in late 2006, I’ve got 159 plays.  And since the track is 5:22 long that’s a little over 850 minutes of listening, in other words a little over fourteen hours. And that doesn’t include over […]

I thought this could only happen in England. From the ska movement to Duffy and Adele retro-soul has always had a home in the U.K.  But in America we’ve been too busy chasing beats, living in a hip-hop nation. What to make of the new sensation Fitz and The Tantrums?  The band doesn’t even have […]

Do you tell your lover everything? I was hiking in the mountains last Sunday night listening to my Wendy Waldman MP3s.  I’m recovering from a pinched nerve in my back and I’ve been overwhelmed and I was testing my body and I just couldn’t handle anything new, I needed to hear the music of an […]

I almost wrote about James Taylor a couple of weeks back, because he’s giving free guitar lessons on his Website, actually, since I was last there, he’s posted one more: James Taylor guitar lessons Although I gave up playing the guitar decades ago, I was stunned that a musician of his caliber seemed to be […]