Thinkin’ ’bout the times you drove in my carThinkin’ that I might have drove you too far How many notes does it take you to know what song it is?That’s how you identify the true insiders, by how early they clap.Here, Jack Bruce is only a few notes into it, and you can hear the […]

I’m sipping Flor De Cana and lime juice, it’s three a.m.Blow a fruit fly off the rim of my glassThe radio’s playing Superchunk and the friends of Dean MartinezActually, there was no music at all. It was just the two of us. Living an extended "My Dinner With Andre". When we entered the restaurant, it […]

Nobody does the song like the writer. Well, there are exceptions. Nilsson’s version of Badfinger’s "Without You" comes to mind. But most times the writer…well, it’s kind of like hearing the story from the person who it happened to as opposed to second-hand. Hell, maybe that’s why music blew up in the sixties and seventies, […]