The two best Bonnie Raitt albums were produced by Don Was. My favorite is the second, "Give It Up", released in 1972, it’s got an intimacy that was squeezed out of recordings thereafter.  Slick became the norm.  Rough edges denied you airplay.  Just like you had to be beautiful to get on MTV, your music […]

What if Artist Nation had worked? You see Michael Cohl assembled a team in Florida and started a record company under Bob Ezrin.  They only ended up signing one act before disbanding, at least that’s the way I heard it, the Zac Brown Band. I’ve done my best not to write about this act.  Because […]

This is a completely different experience. This is the way you remember them.  Not scrubbed clean, but emanating from one speaker in the dash, one speaker underneath the spinning wheel of your all-in-one record player.  It’s not about revelation, but basking in the joy of the music itself.  These are the CDs you want to […]

What do you listen to first? "Every Little Thing", that’s my favorite Fab Four track (and I hate that appellation, but that’s how writers are, they’re afraid to use the same term over and over again, and come up with another moniker). But as I broke the shrinkwrap on the giant box, I had a […]