I saw Little Feat at the Troubadour. When I was a junior in college, all the music magazines testified about this new album by Little Feat, entitled "Dixie Chicken". So, of course, I bought it.  And played it.  And if you’d taken a picture of my face upon that first time through you would describe […]

2010 World Series Game 2 – Fans sing along with Steve Perry of Journey This is why we do it.  This is why we write and perform music.  This is why a musician’s life is richer than that of any Wall Street banker, any politician, any sports figure. They say that money is king, that […]

Is Taylor Swift Debbie Gibson or Joni Mitchell? "Speak Now" is Taylor Swift’s effort at self-justification.  She wrote all the songs, it’s totally her…and we wish it wasn’t.  We wish she still co-wrote, that she used the usual suspect producers, then it would be more professional, less cringeworthy, more radio-friendly and acceptable to those who […]

It’s mediocre. This album should not have been produced by T-Bone Burnett, but Rick Rubin.  Rick is famous for getting his acts to get back into the headspace they inhabited when they did their best work and forcing them to write and write and write until they come up with material just as good as […]