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 […]

"Travelin’ Light"Eric Clapton The last stuff I loved by Clapton was "She’s Waiting" and "Forever Man" on 1985’s Phil Collins-produced "Behind The Sun".  After that, Clapton mellowed to the point where there was almost nothing there. Oh yeah, I dug "Change The World", but the overplay made me crazy.  Eric Clapton used to be a […]