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The High Street Project (6/16/2024) - This spring saw the release of The High Street Project to streaming… view full post
The Nebulas Live at Ralph’s Diner, 1982 (6/10/2024) - The Nebulas* were born in 1979, when Deb Penta and I started… view full post
The Joubert Singers, “Stand on the Word” (6/26/2024) - My friend Larry Haley is running a music sharing project he calls… view full post
The Nebulas – Studio Recordings 1981–1983 (6/8/2024) - The Nebulas* recorded a bunch of songs in professional studios, between 1981… view full post
Miniatures (6/1/2024) - Short sketches, ideas, etc. view full post
Steely Dan, “West of Hollywood” (5/6/2024) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. Kid… view full post
Vernon Reid & Masque, “Time” (3/22/2024) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. For… view full post
Nona Hendryx & Material, “Bustin’ Out” (12/18/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. The… view full post
Tarnation, “Like A Ghost” (9/29/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. Greil… view full post
Karla Bonoff, “Someone to Lay Down Beside Me” (9/23/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. Linda… view full post
The Third Mind, “Groovin’ Is Easy” (9/20/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. The… view full post
Tatiana, “Been a Fool” (9/8/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. Tatiana… view full post
Eurythmics, “Julia” (8/26/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. A… view full post
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, “Righteous Life” (8/20/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. This… view full post
Audrey Lavergne, “Put Me Down” (7/25/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. Who… view full post
Over The Rhine, “Ohio” (7/5/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. Husband… view full post
Malick Koly, “Heaven for Now” (6/9/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. For… view full post
Peggy Lee, “Aren’t You Kind Of Glad We Did?” (5/20/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. When… view full post
Eddie Holman, “This Can’t Be True” (5/9/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. The… view full post
Free, “Come Together in the Morning” (4/26/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. Was… view full post
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester, “Farewell Aldebaran” (3/29/2023) - My friend Larry Haley is running a music sharing project he calls… view full post
Bonnie Tyler, “I Put a Spell on You” (3/22/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. By… view full post
Timi Yuro, “Interlude” (3/13/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. The… view full post
Doug Carn with Jean Carn, “Infant Eyes” (3/7/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. I… view full post
Leni Stern, “Bury Me Standing” (2/19/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. New… view full post
Jane Woodman & Zoë Keating, “Sister Europe” (1/28/2023) - Here's another post of mine from Larry Haley's The Bop Shop. The… view full post
Amanda Marshall, “Shades of Grey” (1/14/2023) - My friend Larry Haley is running a music sharing project he calls… view full post
Create every day (1/4/2021) - Laura Escudé talks about the importance of creating new music every day,… view full post
Solitude Deprivation (4/5/2019) - Reading Cal Newport's excellent (and recommended) Digital Minimalism. He coins the term… view full post
Big Ears Festival 2019 (3/31/2019) - Big Ears Thursday evening: Welcome to Knoxville! Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan… view full post
Big Ears 2019 Thursday (3/22/2019) - Big Ears trip day one: We stayed at a delightful Air BnB… view full post
Feature creep (3/17/2019) - From Paul Jarvis: "Lately it seems like there are very few technology… view full post
Delirious desire (3/16/2019) - It’s easy to understand why we remember songs when we’ve heard them… view full post
Silence (3/13/2019) - I know one thing for certain: silence will not present itself unbidden… view full post
Chamath Palihapitiya (3/3/2019) - The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how… view full post
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, “Mary Mary” (1966) (3/2/2019) - For aspiring musicians in the 1960s, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band was… view full post
Santana on Szabo (2/28/2019) - Carlos Santana says that, for him, Gabor Szabo was the “exit out”… view full post
Knausgaard’s Buddhism (2/27/2019) - Reading Book 6 of My Struggle. Karl Ove stumbles upon the essence… view full post
Tao Lin (2/22/2019) - I love Tao Lin's Twitter style, especially his "I recommend..." tweets. Like:… view full post
Bill Frisell (2/22/2019) - The older I get, the more I keep looking back trying to… view full post
Foreigner (2/20/2019) - At the gym today, the soundtrack was 100% young white male post-Strokes… view full post
Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Painted Bird” (1982) (2/16/2019) - In the early 1980s, when I was the guitarist in The Nebulas,… view full post
Leonard Cohen (2/12/2019) - Just finished reading Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard… view full post
Leon Russell/Joe Cocker, “Delta Lady” (1969-70) (2/9/2019) - If you had been leafing through Rolling Stone in 1970, this A&M… view full post
Twyla Tharp (2/8/2019) - Someone has done it before? Honey, it's all been done before. Nothing's… view full post
Brian Eno (2/8/2019) - Stop thinking about artworks as objects, and start thinking about them as… view full post
MOTU DP10 (2/5/2019) - Keeping a close eye on the soon-to-be-available Digital Performer 10 upgrade from… view full post
Bees Deluxe (2/5/2019) - We had dinner at the Gardner Ale House last night, and enjoyed… view full post
The Connection (2/1/2019) - Reading Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde by… view full post
Dionne Warwick, “(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls” (1968) (1/26/2019) - There’s an art to making a catchy pop song in an odd… view full post
Buddy Holly (1/26/2019) - Reading Greil Marcus' The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs.… view full post
ABKCO Records (1/24/2019) - Great interview in the new Tape Op (#129) with Teri Landi, curator… view full post
Hal Blaine (1/22/2019) - Hal Blaine's drumming on "Any World (That I'm Welcome To)" ❤️ view full post
Presonus Eris 3.5 (1/18/2019) - Wanted a decent, inexpensive pair of powered monitors for everyday listening, so… view full post
Fleetwood Mac, “Rhiannon,” OGWT 1976 (1/16/2019) - Every time I watch this video from the Old Grey Whistle Test… view full post
Schaun Tozer (1/16/2019) - Listening to Schaun Tozer's OST for Mighty Jerome. A lot of his… view full post
Enigma (1/14/2019) - But now I have come to believe that the whole world is… view full post
Steely Dan, “Here At The Western World” (1/12/2019) - Some song lyrics are cryptic, but we don’t need to “figure out”… view full post
Amateur (1/12/2019) - The professional blogging sites (and courses, and books) say the savvy blogger… view full post
Steely Dan cast of characters (1/12/2019) - For no particular reason, here’s a list of named characters who appear… view full post
Music & Mindfulness (1/10/2019) - As I said earlier, this isn't an "oldies music blog" (first few… view full post
Twelve Thirty (1/5/2019) - Listen to Hal Blaine's drumming on the "quiet" parts of The Mamas… view full post
Music we enjoyed in 2018 (1/3/2019) - I say “we” because Valerie and I discovered and experienced most if… view full post
Mountains Build the Valleys remix (12/28/2018) - This is a remix I did on Jeff Sampson's original vocal track. view full post
Gary “U.S.” Bonds, Quarter to Three (1961) (12/27/2018) - This record changed my life. I was ten years old. How many… view full post
Mountains Build the Valleys (12/23/2018) - From 2018. Jeff Sampson wrote the lyrics and sang; I did the… view full post
Drive time (12/22/2018) - A chugga-chugga motion like a railroad train, now! There's an element in… view full post
Austin Kleon (12/20/2018) - Almost a new year. Stop worrying so much about productivity and getting… view full post
Brian Eno (12/8/2018) - Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new… view full post
Baby It’s You (12/6/2018) - Possibly my favorite musical period is the early sixties, just before The… view full post
Chogyam Trungpa (11/28/2018) - Why can't we proclaim that which is neither false nor true? Chogyam… view full post