There is only so much oil in the groundSooner or later there won’t be much around Do you know this record? Back in the early days of ’74, we had an oil crisis.  There just wasn’t enough gas.  I remember waking up at seven to drive down to the Mobil station in Middlebury to fill […]

I was hiking in the mountains listening to the new Jamey Johnson album "The Guitar Song". It’s gonna take a good long time for me to unpack this sucker.  It’s a double album in an era when people only care about singles.  Then again, "The Guitar Song" ain’t like regular country music, you know, the […]

And here’s where my inbox is inundated with missives by hipsters abusing me, telling me I don’t know shit, that I’m behind the times, that I’d better do the public a favor and stop writing. I was driving from Santa Monica to Pacific Palisades pushing the buttons on satellite radio.  First I heard a live […]

The light is changing. I’ve come to detest the summer.  But when the days start to get shorter and the sun’s shine is not quite so bright, I yearn to swim in a lake, roast marshmallows, do all those summer things from the Beach Boys albums. I can’t tell you what an impression the band […]