I’ve been spending all day downloading live shows. The Linda Ronstadt radio show from the Record Plant back in ’73 wasn’t as audio-exquisite as one might expect, it being broadcasted and everything. Karla Bonoff’s show from Nashville back in ’78 was revelatory.  How do they know the essence of life so young?  I had to […]

I spent my seventeenth birthday stoned watching "Woodstock" in Boston. That wasn’t the plan.  I wasn’t supposed to be in Boston at all.  I was supposed to be spending the day with her.  But she never called. Days had gone by.  She had promised.  I’d told my mother that I couldn’t drive her brother and […]

"Bama Breeze"Jimmy Buffett Now I know how Jimmy Buffet feels I heard "Mexico" on No Shoes Radio. I’ve never really been but I’d sure like to go. James Taylor’s career was heading towards the cliff and then he went to work with Lenny Waronker and Russ Titelman recorded the breezy "Gorilla" and was back on […]

"Long Haired Country Boy"The Charlie Daniels Band They say high gasoline prices are keeping people off the freeway. All I can say is…sometimes. I spent all day Saturday going to online traffic school. What a scam. You’ve literally got to spend eight hours, even live they don’t make you do the entire time. Turns out […]