Usually, they die during Christmas.  The axiom is, if you make it through the holidays, all the way to January 1st, you’re golden, you’re safe. How great was Willie Mitchell? Let’s just say without him, Al Green was never able to ascend to the same height.  And that was positively stratospheric. Thank god there have […]

What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where it takes Sting to render the classic version of this Bruce Springsteen song, nearly a decade after it was first released? Mellencamp reworked "Born In The U.S.A." to the point of butchering it.  Loved seeing Kenny Aronoff on the kit, but this was […]

Speaking of Jamie Cullum… I rarely talk on the phone in the car.  Actually, I rarely talk on the phone at all.  It takes too long to get too little information.  But that’s not why I don’t talk in the car.  And it’s not that I’m worried about accidents.  It’s just that my time in […]

Honey why are you calling me so late?It’s kinda hard to talk right now "Rolling Stone" got one thing right.  They declared Gnarls Barkley’s "Crazy" song of the decade. I remember exactly where I heard it.  I remember coming home and going straight to the computer and stealing it.  (At that point you couldn’t buy […]