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 […]

What do you do when they’re off you, when they suddenly hate you, when nothing you do will bring them back. Somewhere along the line, Paula Cole became a joke. Sometime between the incessant airplay for "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" and the ubiquity of "I Don’t Want To Wait". It could have been […]

This record is positively AWFUL! I’m surprised there aren’t SUICIDES at Starbucks. That baristas haven’t offed themselves rather than endure this piece of crap all day long. Anybody who says this album is good has no ears. Maybe literally. Certainly was never exposed to Paul’s previous solo work. Have you revisited "McCartney"? Famous for "Maybe […]

I remember the exact moment I fell in love with "Sweet Home Alabama". It was in a traffic jam. I was driving cross-country, right after Labor Day, right after I’d graduated from college. I took two days to get to K.C. And after a week there, I got back into my car and headed for […]