"Please Read The Letter" I thought this was a live Mike Doughty track.  It had an intimacy studio work normally does not possess.  But I was looking at the XM readout instead of the Sirius window as I drove west into the sun.  Turns out this is from "Raising Sand", the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss album. […]

1 Maybe it’s just one of those days where EVERYTHING sounds good. On the way to the dentist, I heard a live, in-studio version of Los Lobos’ "Peace" on XM’s Loft.  And Van Morrison’s "Cry For Home" resonated when I heard it on Sirius’ Spectrum.  But in between, I was elated in the Southern California […]

I bought "Quadrophenia" the night I saw "Billy Jack". Before the mania, before the backlash, when the film’s cult was just forming and I wanted to discover its essence. I stopped in the fall darkness at Korvette’s. Purchased six or seven records and then drove to the movie theatre in New Haven. I kept the […]

Well I know it sounds funnyBut I’m not in it for the money, noI don’t need no reputationAnd I’m not in it for the show I just want a hit record, yeahWanna hear it on the radioWant a big hit record, yeahOne that everybody’s got to know "Overnight Sensation" was not.  A last hurrah, a […]