For the past seven or eight months I’ve been listening to these two albums of old-time and bluegrass music without a clue when they were released, who the players were nor how they landed in my library. I imagine the latter came about as a recommendation from Apple Music’s algorithms ...
Not mine! Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, listening to The Beatles, The Stones, Aretha and other greats on the radio, I would cringe when Strangers in the Night would interrupt the magic of the contemporary sound. Although I still cringe when I hear Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo, I’ve ...
I was there during the 60s, moved back to Kansas, which is where I was born at in Fort Riley, ended up going to college. When I was a freshman in college is when the Iranian Revolution happened. I had a lot of interesting conversations, things like that. I was a music major in ...
I think people don’t really realize how much time it really takes to eat out. By the time you get ready to go, drive there, are seated, get waited on, after you decide what you want, then wait for you dinner, wait to be cleared,wait for your check, wait to pay, drive home, ...
“Who is Kevin Starr?” you ask. Well, I’m not a musician, nor a professional critic. I’m 62 and have spent decades listening to music and forming highly debatable opinions. Thanks to modern technology, we now have access to the kind of epic record collection we could only dream abou...
and Gong. Or listening to the Burritos while lighting up that first joint, and moving on to early Gil Scott-Heron on Flying Dutchman for the second one. Music was always just music. Genres were how you promoted it to radio stations and marketed it with little plastic signs at retail. Roc...
“Dance of the Clairvoyants,” Pearl Jam’s first new music since 2013’sLightning Boltalbum, may have caught some fans by surprise, but upon repeat plays the song starts to grow on you. The lyrics “Expecting perfection / Leaves a lot to ignore / When the past is the present / And ...
“Dance of the Clairvoyants,” Pearl Jam’s first new music since 2013’sLightning Boltalbum, may have caught some fans by surprise, but upon repeat plays the song starts to grow on you. The lyrics “Expecting perfection / Leaves a lot to ignore / When the past is the present / And ...