I am a rock and roll lifer and always listen to music when driving. Before manufacturers realized the importance, I’d upgrade sound systems in new cars first thing. Like the day I drove them out of the dealership. I’ve had any number of moments like the one I’m considering this day. When I hear a […]
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I am not a physician. Nor have I played one on television. But, what would you say if for a $20 copay, I could provide you with a short term antidote for these troubled times. When governance is at a standstill. When contention consumes us daily. When digital Xs & 0s represent a real threat […]
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I am not a health professional. I have not played one on television. Nor did I dispense with medical advice during my years of shticking my way through public radio malarkey. But I am today ready for my close up. Willing to share the way I’ve discovered to gain some serenity in this cockamamie world. […]
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They seemed cute enough, a quick sweet smile in the middle of the day. Then the videos got me thinking. The first, maybe you’ve seen it, shows a row of four golden retrievers, who play dead when their owner shoots them with a water gun. They’d be stars on Letterman, I thought when I first […]
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Like a hellhound they are on my trail. The G.L.G.V.F. Greater Louisville Grammar Vigilante Force. Came home from a dinner with friends the other evening and there at my doorstep was a card which read, “READ THIS BOOK.” It was affixed to a copy of Strunk and White’s “The Elements of Style.” All those nightmares […]
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The exact connection is murky though I have a sense of it. On Sunday evening I meandered over to Peterson Dumesnil to hear a duo perform from the porch to a smattering of wine drinking folks. As I told some good friends I ran into, “When I read ‘New Orleans inspired,’ I was like a […]
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So, yeah, the heat is hot, humiture is on the rise. It’s time for my favorite summer album on the box, thirty five minutes of respite from the heat and wackomundoness about in the world. And you know a hit of solid New Orleans vibe. Allen Toussaint’s Southern Nights is one of my very favorite […]
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I am going through serious withdrawal. JazzFest is just weeks away. Absent some confluence of miracles, I won’t be there for the second year in a row. After a thirty five year run. The realities of being firmly into my octogenarianism are manifest. As much as it pains, prudence must prevail. But it’s ever on […]
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On occasion the worth of a yarn is in the telling. Not whether there’s a lesson or a moral, if any. It’s can be the journey more than the destination, if any. Or so I convince myself with today’s adventure. Not sure exactly where we might arrive — though I’ve a glimmer — but do […]
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You a rock & roller? Itching for a fight? You’re hangin’ with pals who love the tuneage as much as you do. Here’s a sure fire starter. Throw out a declaration, a definitive statement, a proclamation that XXXXXX is The Best Live Album of All Time. Here’s a suggestion. For your own personal safety. But […]
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The story’s been told before. But it’s my favorite about Ray Charles and me. The time I didn’t hear him when I intended to. At JazzFest. As I’ve written many times over, one of the cool daily rituals during Fest has been the krewe gathering in the evening for some sumptuous meal, pulling out our […]
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When I mentioned recently to a fellow rock & roll addict that I’d spent my early morning during breakfast revisiting the great 1987 documentary, “Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock & Roll,” he wondered how that came about? A long and winding road for certain. Serpentine. As my thought processes tend to be these days. Briefly. […]
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I shall end up with a reveal of my favorite cameo in a rock & roll song, promise. But it shall take some meandering to get there. For context, and certainly appropriate for today’s date, let me start here, with what for me is an indelible if just imagined image. The morning after the plane […]
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No, I was never at Woodstock. Though, given my open obsession/ addiction to rock & roll, many people have asked, so sure in their minds that I had to have been there. I was at Atlanta Pop II in ’70, the ill fated (and ill named) Celebration of Life the following summer, plus a great […]
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The lede shall not be buried. The sequel to “This is Spinal Tap” is not as good as the original. It happens. There’s only one “Godfather 2.” Only one “Astral Weeks.” Only one “Guernica.” That settled, next question: Should there have been a sequel? After all, the original is a masterwork. It essentially invented the […]
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