Not long after I pulled over for the Bomb Squad van, I tuned into the Village, channel 15 on XM. Last week, sick of fighting the rap wars, I had the epiphany I was only going to listen to folk music.  Maybe country, that Wreckers album is really good.  But is that really country?  Do […]

I used to buy Chris Hillman records. Oh, I knew he was in the Byrds.  But it was really because I loved that first Souther, Hillman, Furay record.  Oh, I know, the band hated each other, J.D. gave Richie no respect, but there were certain tracks on that album…  Shit, remember "Life ain’t so easy […]

I just found out there’s a Bruce Hornsby boxed set.  Oh, you might not care, but that’s exactly the point. Been reading Lee Gomes in the "Wall Street Journal"?  Refuting "The Long Tail"?  He had some interesting statistics last week It May Be a Long Time Before the Long Tail Is Wagging the Web  but […]

DON’T TAKE ME ALIVE I’m a bookkeeper’s sonI don’t want to shoot no oneWell I crossed my old man back in OregonDon’t take me alive I drove cross-country with six cassettes purchased at Odyssey Music in Salt Lake City. Oh, I had thirty one other tapes, but they’d been played to death. I needed new […]