Wednesday!

Was going to call this one “Glossolalia!” but, yeah, It’s Wednesday. Like everybody else on the planet, I bought Blue Bell Knoll off of the strength of the song Carolyn’s Fingers (I don’t know why I bothered linking it as I’m… Continue Reading →

In the comments to last Wednesday’s post, RTod mentioned Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah as another song that has a double boatload of folks covering it… but, he pointed out, they pretty much all sound the same. I agree with him. My… Continue Reading →

(I admit. I almost called this essay “Darwin!” and then I remembered that, no, it’s Wednesday.) I love remix culture, sometimes. The idea of taking a long-finished, long-forgotten piece of art and tweaking it, bending it, folding it, and spindling… Continue Reading →

So… what are you listening to? Some weeks you want to listen to upbeat happy stuff, some weeks you want to listen to songs like Jayhawks’ song “Blue”.

So… what are you listening to? Every now and again I go back and I listen to Jimi and have my mind blown all over again. Check out the guitar solo. He plays it with his teeth.

So… what are you listening to? I’m always tickled to death when I find a song that makes me say “man, I wish that they had a 15 minute remix of this”. There are very few songs that achieve that… Continue Reading →

So… what are you listening to? It’s so very rare to see falsetto done well. Say what you will about the Bee Gees, they knew how to hit those notes and make you feel like a real man would be… Continue Reading →