Feb 13, 2020 | Blog, Music
Here’s a piece I wrote in December, 1999… I went to see Billy Joel on Friday night, the first concert I’ve attended in a long time. In all the years I’ve been going to live musical events, this was the first time I sat close enough to notice an interesting...
Feb 11, 2020 | Movies, Music
Over the years, I have written about movies like “Session Men,” “The Wrecking Crew,” “Standing In The Shadows Of Motown,” and “20 Feet From Stardom” — documentaries which told the stories of musicians whose names you didn’t know while they were...
Feb 10, 2020 | Blog, Music
I don’t have any major regrets in my life. Missteps, sure, but none so damaging that I still grieve over them. While I had a few moves in my radio career that didn’t pan out, they were always followed by jobs that went very well and lasted several years. I’ve played...
Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Music
My knowledge of classical music is equivalent to what I know about art: practically nothing. Oh, I can name a bunch of composers — all white men who have been dead more than a century — and even identify a half-dozen of their works by ear. But I don’t know a Mozart...
Jan 28, 2020 | Music, Picture of the Day
The Playing For Change Foundation is back with another song recorded with musicians around the world. This time, it’s the Grateful Dead classic...
