Satellite radio is a filter. That’s its main attraction. That’s one of the main reasons I tune in. To hear new stuff. Just now, pulling into my garage, the deejay on XM’s X Country said two people had birthdays today, Julie Miller and Butch Hancock. Oh, what a wonderful world we live in. Acts that […]

"Songs About Me"Trace Adkins I used to be addicted to "Politically Incorrect". I had my VCR set to tape it every night. Oh, I’d fast-forward past Bill Maher’s monologue, but I’d be fascinated by the meat of the show, wherein four people from different walks of life debated the issues of the day. People who […]

Speaking of satellite radio… I was driving to KLSX Sunday night and I was listening to XM’s folk channel. And what came out of the speakers of my automobile had none of the immediacy of Britney or Beyonce, none of the in-your-face manipulation of Fall Out Boy, only an honesty I recognized, that I treasured […]

John Batdorf and James Lee Stanley, performing their acoustic rearrangements of Stones songs, some solo stuff and recounting a bunch of rock history, like how Batdorf was signed to Ahmet’s Atlantic but then asked to be switched to Geffen’s Asylum for the second album and ultimately ended up on Clive’s Arista, which is the last […]