Having saved my money for an album, I put it on the spindle, dropped the tonearm and sat on my bed with the cover, reading every word.  And the more albums I bought, the more networked the players and personalities ended up becoming, to the point where I started buying albums BASED on the credits. […]

The freeways were designed in the fifties.  As they were overrun by cars in the decades that followed, glaring design flaws were revealed.  If I’m getting off and you’re getting on, and we’re supposed to cross, don’t you expect this to create problems? But that’s the way it is on the eastbound 10 at La […]

In the town where I was raisedThe clock ticks and the cattle grazeTime passed with amazing graceBack where I come from "Back Where I Come From"Mac McAnally I got an e-mail from Scott Borchetta, proprietor of Big Machine and Valory Records, singing the praises of both his indie labels and one of his charges, Justin […]

Music used to be regional.  And despite being featured in all the Warner Brothers hype, nowhere I lived ever played Montrose on the radio. But now the satellite’s got a national footprint. Which is how I ended up hearing "Good Rockin’ Tonight". I was driving up a leafy boulevard, the kind upon which XM maintains […]